Virtual Disk replace with PERC H310
Hi,To make things easier to understand, this is the initial configuration:- PERC H310 adapter- 6 HDDVirtual Disk 0, RAID1, OS installation disk 2 SATA 1TB HDDVirtual Disk 1, RAID1, DB and File storage,...
View ArticleRAID Header Length/Offset PercS300 Raid 10 configuration
I am attempting to recover data using forensic software from four disk images which were obtained from a dell power edge server with a raid 10 configuration (4 x 300 GB drives) with a PercS300...
View ArticleStandalone Data Drive
I have a T610 with PERC 6/i SAS RAID Controller running 6 1TB disks in RAID5. The client wants to add a standalone single 4 TB disk to offload data they are not yet willing to delete but is not in...
View ArticleProblem encrypting virtual disk w/PERC H730
Hello,I've created a RAID-10 virtual disk on a PERC H730 controller with (4) Samsung 850 SSD drives.I've created my security key and attempted to encrypt the virtual disk. The job says it completes...
View ArticleSwapped out Two Predicted to fail drives on a 2950 Power Edge but the...
Hi all,My boss over the weekend Just replaced 2 SAS drives on our Power Edge 2950 server in a Raid 5 configuration. He told me since he had to reboot the server that he booted to the raid controller...
View ArticlePERC 6i to H700
I have a PE T410 with a PERC 6i PCI card, and I'm using 2TB SAS drives. I'd like to replace the drives with 4TB SAS, and it looks like I need the H700 to do this. Aside from the H700 and new cables,...
View ArticleDell Poweredge R710 Not booting after hot swapping drives
I am having an issue with one of our DVR servers. There where two drives that where giving me issues. One had completely failed and the other was imminent. I replaced the bad drive first, gave it some...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1900 PERC 5/i battery failed. Replaced... System still won't boot.
PowerEdge 1900 owned by one of my clients would not boot up. Server was was displaying an error message about the RAID controller battery. I replaced the battery, the message is gone, and the system...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950 sas
I run the program Dell PowerEdge Diagnostic Ver.2.9 and saw a status of this drives - This Disk drive is not supported by Dell.HDD SAS Seagate ST2000NM0054Please tell me what should I do ??? How do I...
View ArticleHow to move a working RAID-1 array from spare server to production server?
Hi all.We have 2 identical Dell PowerEdge R420's (4 x 3.5" drive bays), one is live, and the other is a spare sitting on a desk in my office.Each server was shipped with 3 x 500GB SATA 3.5"...
View ArticlePERC Battery Replacement
I need to replace the PERC raid battery in a poweredge r710. Is the battery hot swappable or will I need to shutdown the machine?
View ArticleIs full format required on RAID 10?
Hi,Yesterday night (about 12 hours ago) I reconfigured one of my servers to use RAID 10.It is a Dell R720, with a PERC H710 and eight HHD of 2 TB each.So I build a RAID 10 with 8Tb of storage using...
View Articleswap of failed drive on R510
Sorry for the elementary question, but I'm happy to be looked upon as a simpleton if I canget it right. :)Error on LED is "E1810 HD 5 fault"This disk is part of a RAID-1. Machine is running CentOS 5....
View ArticlePower Edge 2900 Perc 5/i Foreign Config
I have been through the forums looking at the information on this issue. One of the drives failed in the RAID array and we are getting the "Foreign Config" error. The drives that hold our data is now...
View ArticleUpgrade s300 to Perc h700 - Poweredge R510
I bought a used poweredge r510 and went to replace the s300 with a perc h700. I haven't installed anything onto it. When I put in the h700 and hooked up the sas cables that I purchased, upon booting...
View ArticleCan not install western digital hard drive to Dell Power Edge T300
I have dell t300 which was running out of space plus it has window server 2003 r2 we were planning to update operating system to 2012 r2 and plan to add 4 western digital black hard drive.it does...
View ArticlePerc 6/i 1 disk replaced, how to rebuild (RAID 5)?
Hi,At the time of replacing I had close to "0" knowledge about this raid controller. The thing is when I replaced faulty HDD with new one same capacity, I think I didn't choose correct option. I chosen...
View ArticleSlow write performance Perc H310 with Storage Spaces
We have a new server with te following specs:Poweredge R5202x Intel® Xeon® E5-2430 v2, 2.50GHz4x8GB RDIMM2x300GB Raid1 (Perc H310)4x600GB No raid (Perc H310)Hyper-V Server 2012 R2The 4 drives are...
View ArticlePowerEdge R200 SAS 6/ir raid 1 rebuild
Hi i have R200 with SAS 6/iR Raid controller configured to RAID 1 with 2 disk(250GB Baracuda), the other day i noticed some errors in system events in windows reports of bad blocks next day windows...
View ArticleT420 Raid Driver Questions
Hello,I have a PowerEdge T420 that I am attempting to install Win2012 R2 on - totally blank, not had an OS yet. During the install phase, Windows can't find the Hard Drives to target. This is...
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