Multiple T110 II server failures on the same day!? is this real life!?
Bit of a state of shock here.Two Dell T110 II servers w/ PERC controllers. Different sites 40 miles away, different networks, (different school districts). They both crashed the same day (the afternoon...
View ArticleS110 to PERC 710 cable?
Hello,We have a T620 running Server 2012 R2, and need to upgrade the RAID controller, because the performance is ridiculously poor right now. We are using 2 TB RAID 1 as OS/data partition. After...
View Articleread disk S.M.A.R.T. in PERC H710 Mini?
Hi,I have a few Dell R520 servers (all running Win 2012 64bit) with PERC H710 Mini Raid controllers inside.Is there any way to access/see S.M.A.R.T. attributes of their HDDs? Dell OpenManage Server...
View ArticlePowerEdge 840 - No Boot Device Found
I successfully added a SATA hard drive to an 840 and was installing some software when the boot drive disappeared.It has an Adaptec raid controller (level 5) with 4 disks. On boot the controller is...
View ArticleOptimize PERC for SSD
Hello,I recently purchased a single SSD drive to use as a vFlash Read Cache resource in a Dell PE R720. The SSD is connected to a PERC H710P. How should I configure the following virtual disk options...
View ArticleConfigure iSCSI Volumes
Hello everyone!Its the first time Installing Ubuntu Server on a Power Edge 2950 to me and The issue is when it comes to partitioning disks, it said it has detected active SATA drives there - "One or...
View ArticleDell R410 SAS6/iR controller/backplane/cable failure on two different servers.
I have two Dell R410s manufactured in June of 2010. The SAS 6/iR controller. the hot swap backplane or cabling is starting to fail. Both servers have reported a drive gone "missing" in the status...
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1 MB/s write speeds on R210 II with SSDs
HelloI have a couple of R210 II with the Perc H200 controller with 2x Toshiba MK3001GRRB 300GB SAS drives in RAID 1 and 2x Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB drives in RAID 1.The SSD virtual disk is very slow...
View ArticleR520 with PERC H710 see only 6 HDD
Hello i have R520 with H710. I have eight 300GB SAS Dell's HDD but server see only six. Why ?
View ArticleReplaced a Predicted Failure drive but can't tell the current status
Howdy,R410 showed a predictive Failure on one of the hard drives so we hot swapped the drive out. We did not offline it first since we didn't know that was something we should do. After putting in...
View ArticleT420 Poweredge disks
I've already bought a T420 Poweredge server, with 2 disks 300Gb SAS 2,5 in Raid 1 hot swap and there are 6 room from disk left. I know that's possibile to add other SAS 2.5 disks hotswap, but my...
View ArticleNew U320 drive on Poweredge 2600 with PERC 4/Di only reported as 160 MB/sec
A drive on my Poweredge 2600 with a PERC 4/Di failed. I pulled it out, saw it was a Seagate ST373453LC (Cheetah, 15K, U320). I purchased an OEM ST373453LC from a seller on Amazon. When I put the new...
View ArticleCan h730p on-board raid controller works with sata hdd?
Hi~My server is R920 and I want to build a raid with 12 pieces of WD 2T sata hdd,working in raid10 modal.But the hdds can not be recognized in the system and the yellow LED is light.Any ideas?Thanks...
View ArticleT620 w/ H710P Adapter - Getting MultiBit ECC Errors during high write loads
One of my T620's with H710P adapters has crashed 3 consecutive weekends in a row when it was receiving lots of data (dozens of VHD files) to be written. The system is Raid-5 with 5 SAS 600GB disks.I...
View ArticlePower Edge T310 RAID problems
I have a T310 server, and the RAID is being reported as degraded when rebooting. I've run Dell Online Diagnostics, and I'm getting a failure on the controller X test, and a read failure on one of the...
View ArticlePERC H710 Firmware updates
Installed Update Rollup 8-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3After installing the update and reboot at logon screen see message OMSM Controller event log: Battery charging was suspended due to...
View ArticleRAID expansion
Hello,Looking for a little advise - I have a PowerEdge 2600 that has a non-OS RAID-5 array that I would like to expand to the max. Right now I have 3 279GB SCSI 15k drives and am out of space. It has...
View ArticleR410 PERC 6/i Question
Recently purchased a Perc6/i PCI card. I plan on using 1 SSD(non-raid) and 3 SAS Drives (RAID5). My question is, what cables would I use? I know I need a battery to power the Perc6/i, but I have tried...
View ArticlePowerEdge R610 with SATA Drives
We have a PowerEdge R610 that takes SAS drives. We would like to use SATA drives instead.To do this on our PowerEdge 2950 we had to purchase an interposer that translated between SAS and SATA. Is...
View ArticlePowerEdge R710 with 4 Disk Array with Perc 6i
hi Everyone,I have six disks in my R710 with Perc 6i:Disk 0,1 is a RAID 1 arrayDisk 2,3 are both 2 TB SAS Disk 4,5 are both 2 TB SASMy disk 5 shows a state of foreign and in the dropdown for the disk,...
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