![]() ![]() So either the fan is getting rid of the heat very efficiently or the blue heatsink isn't dissipating any of the heat from the chip and it's way over spec temp. I expected a bigger difference considering with little air moving across that stock heatsink it became so hot under full load I was able to melt the skin off my finger by touching it. Using an infrared thermometer on the backside of the board and as close to the IHS as possible I can say that both of those locations run about 2c cooler with the blue heatsink and fan than the stock heatsink. So I haven't been able to get any conclusive data on whether that blue heatsink and fan actually decreased the operating temperature of the chip itself. Luckily I've only sold these so far to people I know locally so I was able to pay them a visit and update their cards for them. I've had a lot of people hit me up in PM about purchasing these cards pre-flashed from me and I'll be ready to sell them again in a day or so after some more thorough testing. Fortunately it's an easy flash to P17 from within Windows with the P7 sas2flash.exe. I'm obviously not agreeing with that anymore. I've seen the guide I was working on mentioned a couple times here and it seems to be the general consensus around the various forums that the Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA firmware is the proper method for these H310 and H200 cards. That being said the cards don't seem to present any issues so far running the P16 or P17 LSI firmware. I also saw the adapters reset a couple times during the parity calculations which also caused corruption in the configuration. It didn't seem to corrupt any data but the FlexRAID configuration needed to be recreated and parity recalculated. I didn't think it was a big deal at first but I was able to generate that error repeatedly under heavy load and was actually able to corrupt multiple FlexRAID arrays during testing. ![]() The other issue though is that upon reboot of the server I saw 1 or more errors saying that one of the ports failed. One of the issues being that LSI's software doesn't recognize it as IT mode firmware. I've been doing a lot of testing with crossflashing the Dell cards and I've come across an issue that seems to affect every H310 and H200 when running the Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA firmware. ![]()
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