I recently picked up a Dell R200 off craigslist\free to teach my nephew about computers/servers by setting up a Minecraft server. However when I got it home I had a PCIe Training Error: Slot 1 problem. Inspecting the card showed some capacitors that were expanding and probably the cause of the issue. The R200 has the ability to run 3.5" SATA hard drives off the motherboard itself, but if you wanted to add SAS capabilities, you needed an add-on Perc 5/i or Perc 6/iR card. Neither configuration supported hot swap. Amazingly enough, Dell had a card that would add SAS...and not add RAID capabilities.
I replaced the 0GU186 nonRaid SATA card with a Perc 6/iR and kept the same cables from the original card. Since any data on the hard drives wasn't important to me I was able to find a Perc 6/iR card for 5 dollars shipped instead of the 60 dollars people were wanting for direct replacement. Tested both hard drives with the Drive Scanning tool built into the 6/iR and both drives tested as no broken blocks and installed ESXi 5.5.x like a champ. However, moving an iso image onto the datastore made 1 hard drive sound like a bench grinder.
Just because a drive utility says everything is fine, doesn't mean all is going to be well in the near future. Run a few tests. I'll consider this more learning for my nephew to hear what a hard drive dying sounds like.
note: I would not recommend the Dell R200, go find an R210 II (not the model I) or Dell 410 if you really want a 1u
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