PERC H730 or H330

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Would you get any any benefits going with the more expensive H730 vs H330?
We are planning SSDs only. Would the 1 GB Write cache do any good in this case? Other than that the only difference I see is the H730 is supporting raid6 and 60 while H330 is only good for Raid5 or 50.

Best Answer

Check the specs. The Dell PERC H730 has different write and read policies which can improve the performance for particular patterns (Write-Back/Write-Through) while the Dell PERC H330 does have the only Write-Through policy without NVRAM caching.

https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-RAID-Controller-H730.pdf

https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-RAID-Controller-H330.pdf