I have my doubt that you will get a U.2 drive working on a old school SAS/SATA backplane. I have also my doubt when speaking about the HBA330.  The Dell 13.gen servers wasnt NVMe ready at all. There might be the R730xd within a special HW configuration but not the standard models. You can get a PCIe card which holds a U.2 connector (similar to the M.2 board) and place it in of of the risers. The device goes diretly to the CPU/OS and not trough a HBA. Once we bought Intel DC 4xxx devices and instead of the Flash PCIe card we got the U.2 disks because SKUs are very similar. Regards,Joerg
Hello there, i'm new to the server-world and in the process of setting up my refurbished R730 for trueNAS. Therefor the Perc is in HBA-mode Following problem occurred: My 8 SAS-Drives (HGST) are showing up without any problem My 2 WD Gold DC SN600 aren't showing up at all. The Drive activity LED is lit continuously, the Status indicator is blinking.   Any advice on what i can try to fix this? Thanks in advance!
WD Gold NVME on Dell R730 / PercH730mini