Hard Drive Testing with Dell Diagnostics
We are testing some Hard Drives using Dell Diagnostics on a R510.There are different tests. SMART Test. Short Self Test. Confidence Test. Buffered Test.We have some drives that pass Smart, Buffered...
View ArticleReplacing 73GB drives with 300GB Drives on a PowerEdge 2900
I have an 8 year old PowerEdge 2900 that the OS hard drives are almost full (73GB drives mirrored @ 95% full) I want to replace them with 300GB drives to buy me another year. I have an image of the...
View ArticleR710
Hi,I have a PowerEdge R710 Rack Server. It has one hard drive and it is not using RAID. I want to use RAID.I tried to find out whether there is hardware RAID in the unit. Dell log shows the following...
View ArticleSwap hard drive from one server to another
We got two Dell power edge R710 servers which is not used for long. I'm planning to activate one of server as file server for my company.Server 1 => 3 hard drive (RAID 5)Server 2 => 3 hard drive...
View ArticlePowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID Forum R310
Will a H310 Controller (internal) work on a R310 PowerEdge Server ?if not what raid card will work ..
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Poweredge 2950 Swap to SSD
Hello,We were wanting to change out the SAS Drives currently to SSDs for better performance in regards towards web hosting and server hosting. We do have PERC 6 and we were looking at 'consumer' level...
View ArticleAdditional hard drive space Dell PowerEdge 2900
I have 2 bays open on my PowerEdge 2900. I am running out of space on the mirrored C drive and was originally thinking about replacing them but wondered if I could extend the drives by adding 2...
View ArticleDell Poweredge T610: Array Disk Failure
Hello,The following is what happening on our Poweredge T610 server this past weekend and as well a week ago..I am getting these errors recently on a Dell T610 server and wondering what my next step...
View ArticleR720xd RAID10 SSD replacement
Hello,I have and R720xd Dell server, and an RAID10 array with four Samsung 840 PRO SSD (512GB). I would like to replace all ssd with a new one, because we use this server for SQL server, and in every...
View ArticleMaximum individual hard drive size for R610 Perc 6i controller
Hi everyoneI have a Poweredge R610 with a Perc 6/i SAS controller. I would like to repurpose this as a backup server for our LAN, by filling the remaining 4 SAS drive bays with the largest compatible...
View ArticleShared PERC8 - Multiple Assignment
HiWe just got a new Dell VRTX with 5 SSDs. My plan was to create virtual disk containing all the five disks and use this as a shared storage for the blades.However, when I am about to enable "multiple...
View ArticleServer R710 Unable to find disk ( no led light on both disks )
The server hangs up and when I try to restart the server it displays msg. unable to find boot disk. I tried H/w diagnostics in life cycle controller and found an error code 5500 :01C4 Device :...
View ArticlePerc H310 Mini Mono Non-RAID ?
Hello guys,Can someone confirm me that a Perc H310 mini mono (integrated) support disk in Non-RAID mode like stated above ? (from...
View ArticlePowerEdge 4400 doesn't recognize RAID configuration
I discovered my 4400 hung so I rebooted. The machine BIOS gets going and the drive controller boots, but the computer doesn't see either the RAID mirror pair that has the OS or the RAID5 configuration...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950 drive cannot take offline.
This drive keep going offline by itself, the controller rebuilds. I have a new drive, but when I take the Offline... Execute option in the Administrator it goes to a blank page. I come back to page and...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110 проблема с RAID система не грузится
Метка обслуживания:<ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed per privacy policy> | Код экспресс-обслуживания: <ADMIN NOTE: Express service code removed per privacy policy>No boot device...
View ArticleR610 compatibility issue
Hello, I have a compatibility problem with my DELL R610 server.I buyed it as refurbished with the following config:2 x E5620Perc 6/iIdrac enterpriseAll is working ok but when I add a BROCADE BR1020...
View Article2 New Physical Drives with a status of Non-Critical Yellow Exclamation Point
Raid 1 virtual disk built 100% with failure predicted no. Everything seems to be working correctly, but in Open Manage there is a yellow exclamation point by both drives.Is there an issue I need to...
View ArticleHDD fun
So, long story short our Dell PowerEdge T420 was in place when I came into my position. The person who set it up (and was most knowledgeable about it) was the person I replaced. Managing servers was...
View ArticlePredictive failure, new drives, perc4/di, poweredge 2600, help!
We have an old Dell poweredge 2600 with a PERC 4/di controller with 3 drive array running raid 5. Recently drive 0 was throwing a predictive failure warning about once per day. A consistency check...
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