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  • Dell PowerEdge 2300 SCSI/IDE RAID expansion card problems

    I have an old Dell PowerEdge 2300 that I'm attempting to convert into a file server. It has a 9GB SCSI drive attached to the backplane. As we are missing the caddys, SCSI drives are expensive, and we already have IDE drives available so we purchased an IDE Promise FastTrack 100 TX2 PCI expansion...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 03-14-2010

  • Raid Configuration

    Hopefully this is just a quickie, I have a HP server with 8 SAS drives in it. The machine is fresh and at present has nothing on it. When I boot it up it only detects 6 of the drives. I enter the HP Smart Array utility and it has the other two drives as options. The drives each have two lights, at boot...
    Posted to Storage Technology (Forum) by hardware on 02-21-2010

  • Expanding Raid 5 array on new Dell Poweredge R710

    Hi, I currently have a new Dell r710 server hosted at a datacentre. It has raid 5 4x250gb SAS drives. I am running ESXi 4 on it with a single datastore. I need to increase the disk space and would like to expand the current array. Quesions: 1) Can i replace each drive one at a time with 500gb drives...
    Posted to Servers (Forum) by hardware on 02-20-2010

  • Adding a 2TB drive to a dell poweredge 2900

    Hi, I have a server in the office that is running out of space, i've bought a 2tb drive from dell for this machine, so i powered down the server and fitted the drive, but when it re-booted, the drive did not appear in disk management? no sign of it, can anyone offer any advice? does it need to be...
    Posted to Servers (Forum) by hardware on 02-20-2010

  • Switch Widows Server 2003 to a new Raid Controller

    I have a windows 2003 server running primarily as a web, email, and dns server. It was set up with a motherboard integrated ATI RAID 1 (mirroring). The integrated RAID has been nothing but trouble. We'd like to switch to a name brand RAID controller--we're considering a 3ware. The RAID is RAID...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 02-20-2010

  • Error on new SCSI drive in Raid 5 array

    Hi, I have a W2K Small biz server with internal adaptec 2120s SCSI raid 5 config(3 x 68Gb Drives - no hot spare) serving 3 companies with 50 users so it's crucial to keep this server going! Failed drive in 4 year old array so replacing all 3 disks 1 at a time and rebuilding the array in between obviously...
    Posted to Servers (Forum) by hardware on 02-20-2010

  • Suggestions for RAID configurations for VMware ESXi on Dell Poweredge R510/R710

    We are currently building out a Dell server with ESXi (free limited edition) for a small financial company. 3 or 4 Total VMs all on local storage (no NAS, SANs, DAS): * Windows Server 2008 - DC/DHCP/DNS * Windows Server 2008 with Exchange 2007 * Windows Server 2008 - DC with Blackberry Enterprise Server...
    Posted to Servers (Forum) by hardware on 02-19-2010

  • What is the best RAID 1 card?

    I'm looking to install a RAID 1 card in a server. Currently there is onboard RAID run by the OS but this is not good enough. I don't know what card to recommend. My concern is as follows... I had a RAID card fail once. The main hard drive crashed and the second mirrored drive did not work. When...
    Posted to Disaster Recovery (Forum) by hardware on 01-17-2010

  • Replacement of Disk in Raid 2 and 5 array

    I have a couple of Raid 1 / 5 arrays running now without a problem. However, I have looked around for directions and steps on what to do when a disk fails. Can someone give me steps/details or a good website that list exactly what to do when a drive fails on either a Raid 1 or Raid 5. Current raid is...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 01-08-2010

  • Raid set failure "Dell 2850"

    Hi So we have a Dell 2850, with 4 SCSI Ultra 320 disk`s. 2 x 36 GB in raid 0 with windows 2008(Dont ask me why raid 0 was chosen in the first place) 2x 300 GB in raid 1 for data. So 1 of the 36 gb`s disk crashed and the server went down. We have then tried different things to bring it backup again. This...
    Posted to Storage Technology (Forum) by hardware on 01-08-2010
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