I haven't really used any Dell servers before so sorry in advance if this is a dumb question.
Back story - I recently inherited a recycled R720 server which used only SAN storage and no physical drives. I purchased 8 x 1TB SATA 7K drives which are Dell certified enterprise class drives. This system has a S110 software raid available but nothing else. When I power it up I get 1 green blip on the drives and nothing else. The drives are not detected in BIOS nor in the S110.
After looking through manual I noticed an 'integrated storage controller card' shown in the diagram for the 8x 3.4" back-pane setup.
Question:
Do I need this integrated storage card? I was looking at purchasing a PERC H710