Calle Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 This must be a bug, the state of the internal RAID-controller should not affect the fan! Even if we elaborate that enabling the RAID-controller produce more heat the fan shouldn't spin a at lower pace than in the AHCI mode If you enter bios and check the boot order when you have the two raid controllers active, can you see them in the options? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psikey Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 This must be a bug, the state of the internal RAID-controller should not affect the fan! Even if we elaborate that enabling the RAID-controller produce more heat the fan shouldn't spin a at lower pace than in the AHCI mode If you enter bios and check the boot order when you have the two raid controllers active, can you see them in the options? Yes. All works as you would expect apart from ILO4 and hence the fan control. Something's wrong somewhere as from boot to boot I can see both in iLO4 but fan still high then neither showing in iLO4. I've spent too much time on this for now so just restored back to using just the B120i with the 4 bays as a RAID10 array and the SSD as a RAID0 in the optical connector. May retry again at a later stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredaroony Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 I have a SSD running in AHCI mode in the SATA port and a Adaptec 3405 adapter with 4 x 3TB drives in RAID 5 and my fans are running at 28% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psikey Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 (edited) I have a SSD running in AHCI mode in the SATA port and a Adaptec 3405 adapter with 4 x 3TB drives in RAID 5 and my fans are running at 28% Sent from my Galaxy S4 Does ILO4 show anything under the storage Tab? What drives are you using? Also for those more experienced, will HP P222 work in any PC or does it have to be an HP machine? Edited August 23, 2013 by psikey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Are you familiar with the process of running a single drive on a HP Smart Array controller? If not you need to make a single drive RAID0. This is also a weird requirement. Who on earth thought that one up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredaroony Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Sent from my Galaxy S4 Does ILO4 show anything under the storage Tab? What drives are you using? Also for those more experienced, will HP P222 work in any PC or does it have to be an HP machine? Doesn't show anything and Toshiba 3TB, cant remember the model numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 (edited) It's interesting how HP ties seemingly unrelated items together, like a RAID card controlling the system cooling fan. How would these be unrelated? RAID=Drives=heat Also, the RAID card is not controlling the fans the iLo is This is also a weird requirement. Who on earth thought that one up When did you become head critic of RAID controllers? The Smart Array controllers did not have a JBOD mode. This was an innovative way of providing JBOD. Sent from my Galaxy S4 Does ILO4 show anything under the storage Tab? What drives are you using? Also for those more experienced, will HP P222 work in any PC or does it have to be an HP machine? I have used HP RAID controllers in non-HP systems. They have worked fine. Edited August 23, 2013 by schoondoggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 How would these be unrelated? RAID=Drives=heat Also, the RAID card is not controlling the fans the iLo is When did you become head critic of RAID controllers? The Smart Array controllers did not have a JBOD mode. This was an innovative way of providing JBOD. I have used HP RAID controllers in non-HP systems. They have worked fine. Well, let's see: the fan is to cool the system, not just the drives, cause all of it generates heat, so why not have the system control the fan? I guess the iLO controlling it is more logical; better than the RAID card anyway. A single drive RAID0 is a contradiction in terms, and is in direct violation of the official definition of RAID0. Call me old-fashioned; I like things to be logical and follow the established standards. Why didn't HP just label it 'individual drive mode' or something? Also, what happens if you have multiple drives and want them all to be seen individually by the system; do you have to make multiple RAID0 arrays? On other RAID cards, the default is to just have all drives seen individually, unless you deliberately create an array of some level. BTW, just like everyone else, I'm entitled to criticise HP's implementation -- don't have to be the head of anything. You call it innovative... fair enough; I call it weird, non-standard, illogical, and non-intuitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calle Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Something funky is going on with fan control. I added 2x 2.5" HDD's in top ODD bay and connected them to the B120i and created a RAID 1 array loaded up ESXi and suddenly the fan keeps running at 70% when it has been keeping a nice 6% duty mode before. All the temperatures are very low and nice. Could the inital array creation cause the fan to increase so much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Well, let's see: the fan is to cool the system, not just the drives, cause all of it generates heat, so why not have the system control the fan? I guess the iLO controlling it is more logical; better than the RAID card anyway. A single drive RAID0 is a contradiction in terms, and is in direct violation of the official definition of RAID0. Call me old-fashioned; I like things to be logical and follow the established standards. Why didn't HP just label it 'individual drive mode' or something? Also, what happens if you have multiple drives and want them all to be seen individually by the system; do you have to make multiple RAID0 arrays? On other RAID cards, the default is to just have all drives seen individually, unless you deliberately create an array of some level. BTW, just like everyone else, I'm entitled to criticise HP's implementation -- don't have to be the head of anything. You call it innovative... fair enough; I call it weird, non-standard, illogical, and non-intuitive. The system does control the fan through iLo, that was my point. Of course you are welcome to criticize anything you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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