PERC H700 (replacing RAID5 with RAID10)
Hi!we have a PowerEdge T310 with PERC H700 and 4x 1TB HDDs in RAID5.Now I want to replace the old HDDs with 4x 4TB in RAID10.My approach is to create a complete backup of the machine, replace the HHDs,...
View ArticleRaid 1 + Raid6 _H730_PEr530
Hello team, i know H730 supports above mentioned raids, but does it support them in configuration with 2 drives in raid 1 for OS boot, and 6 of them in raid 6?Kind regards.
View ArticleReplaced SAS Drive RAID 5 Degraded
I replaced a suspected failing drive in a Poweredge R515 Perc S300. The RAID shows Degraded and the new drive shows Ready Non Virtual. The option to assign Global Hot Spare is grayed out. How can I get...
View ArticleSATA Port A Device Not Found
I am receiving the error SATA Port A Device Not Found press F1 or F2 when booting. When I press F2 and go to the BIOS the setting for SATA are AHCI and Auto Detect For Port A.I can bypass by pressing...
View ArticleRAID Controller will not show drivers as full capacity > 2TB
I have a PE R900 with PERC 6/i controller. They are both fully updated. I am running WD Red 3TB drives but they only come up as 2TB drives.What can I do so that I can use the drives at their full...
View ArticleSwapping a fault HDD in Poweredge 710
Dear sirs,I have a faulty HDD in our PowerEdge 710. As per the manual, to replace the fault HDD with NEW HDD.Can I put existing (OLD) HDD in replacing the fault HDD?What is mean by REBUILT?Please...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge R805
Is there anything special I need to do in order for this server to access and use local SATA drives?When I insert 2 x 2,5" 1TB SATA Western Digital HDD's, neither of them will show in BIOS. Isn't this...
View ArticlePerc710mini suddenly started blocking non dell drives
We've been using Samsung 850 pros and WD red's in our 720xd's since buying them in 2013.After some planned maintenance last we just one of them rebooted showing all non dell drives as Blocked.We...
View ArticlePE 2950 updating firmware
I've inherited a PE 2950 with Server 2012R2 and the firmware for the PERC 5/i RAID adapter is out of date and I want to update it. Below are the details from OMSA Firmware Version 5.0.1-0030 Minimum...
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PERC H710 Mini Blocking non-Dell Drives
We have been using Samsung 850Pro SSDs and WD Red WD10JFCX in a r720xd chasis for some time. Following a restart during scheduled maintenance the PERC H710 Mini is now blocking all non-Dell certified...
View ArticleDell PERC H200a Not Detecting Drive 0
I have a poweredge t110 II with a perc h200a sas raid controller. It is detecting drives 1-3 but not drive 0. I have tried 2 different drives in that space, and it will not detected.Thank you!
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Dell Poweredge 1850 - Is it possible to understand an IDE drive?
I recently got my hands on a Dell Poweredge 1850 for dirt cheap. It did not come with the hard drives. For my research I've done, it takes and SCA 80 pin hard drive. After looking at them online I...
View ArticleSAS y SATA
Tengo una duda, podemos utilizar dos tecnologías (SAS Y SATA ) en un mismo servidor utilizando una PERC H330 en un servisor R530. La duda me surgio, dado que en los discos sata la informacion va en...
View ArticleAncient PE 2600 with failed boot disk
Server has two logical drives A00 and A01. A00 has two physical drives (00, 01) which have the boot partition. They appear as a RAID array in the Perc 4.1 controller (ctrl-M). Logical drive A01 has...
View ArticleDell PE T410 and 2 hidden HDD bays
Our Dell PE T410 has 6 hot swap 3.5" bays and 2 hidden HDD bays.We notice that Dell PE T610 has 8 hot swap 3.5" bays, so it fully utilizes the 2 hidden HDD bays.Is there a HDD caddy such that we could...
View Article8TB HDD
Hello !I have a DELL PowerEdge T110 II Server and I want to know if can I install on the server one of the following hard drives :HDD WD Red 8TB, 5400rpm, 128MB cache, SATA III product code WD80EFZXHDD...
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Is there documentation on PERC H700
I'm having an issue with a raid 5 on an R710 with PERC H700 on it. I had a drive that was failing, so I replaced it, and after replacing the drive, I marked the new drive as "Hotspare" in the Physical...
View ArticleM620 Blade Plug & Play Configuration Error: IRQ Allocation
Keep getting errors while booting this Dell BladeM620 Blade Plug & Play Configuration Error: IRQ AllocationBus#01/dev#00/Func#1: Unknow PCI Device
View ArticleIndividual Disks in PERC H700 Integrated
Hello,I am trying to configure disks in PowerEdge 710 with PERC H700i. My goal is that I have RAID1 with two disks for OS and populate the rest of the disks as individual disks to Windows. Is it...
View ArticleR610, trying to add a data disk but Windows cannot initialize to make it...
I have a Poweredge R610 running Windows Server 2012 R2 and I want to move some data from an old Windows server install, which is on a separate hard disk. This hard disk is identical to the models...
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