We have been running a few of these servers with only a 500GB 6GB SATA 7.2K drive installed with all VM's (Hyper-V) sitting on an attached SAN. For various reasons we needed some local storage on the server and installed 2 1.2TB SAS drives (10K 2.5")...

We currently run a few C220 servers using the LSI Megaraid software raid controller to create a number of Raid 10 arrays. I am pretty sure we had nor did not order any PCIe or Mezzanine RAID cards so we must be using the embedded Megaraid software co...