Dell R760xs with Perc H755 HBA Mode?

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Hi All,

I have my hands on 2 Dell R760xs servers that are going to be used for S2D however I for the life of me can not find how a way to get these servers into HBA mode.

I have read the PERC H755 does not support it however I have been wondering if there is a way to connect direct to the motherboard over using a dedicated HBA/RAID card.

Running a combination of SAS SSD’s and SAS HDD’s in the front bays. BOSS card for OS.

I have a feeling my only way out of this is to get a couple of HBA355 cards however if there is a way I can avoid this that would be preferred!

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sweet rides…

Not happenin with that controller and do not recommend IT mode in prod…

That’s one of the cheapest solutions if you are runnin SATA/SAS in that chassis

You can run NVME direct from the MoBo, but that’s all the MCIO ports can handle (tried it).

You’ll need an HBA card, but I have ran a Broadcom 9600-16i in that generation Dell as a client had $3k in SATA SSD’s they wanted to utilize without PERC.

You’ll need a pair of cables that took bout an hour to find on Amazon. Sorry, I do not have the part number handy.

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Thanks for the reply,
Ended up grabbing a couple of Perc HBA355 cards and am currently waiting on Fedex to do their thing.

Fingers crossed I should have an update in a couple of weeks when everything arrives saying that is all running perfect!

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