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Do 1 TB Velociraptor SATA drives work smoothly in a Dell PowerEdge RAID setup?

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http://serverfault.com – We're looking at using velociraptor 10k SATA drives in a Dell Poweredge R720. The late-2012 1 TB WD velociraptors seem like a great fit for our situation (need 10s of TBs of storage in a 2.5" format for servers with solid performance). I can't find any examples online of people using these disks in a 2.5" server RAID configuration, but I see at Switch SATA disks in DELL PowerEdge R410 suggesting that only certain Velociraptor models have the right connection for a Poweredge backplane setup. Does anybody know if there will be problems connecting the new velociraptors to the server backpla (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 01/24/2013

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I have a Dell PowerEdge R300 with a Dell SAS 6/iR Internal Controller RAID PCIe and two 250GB SATA HDDs in RAID1 configuration. One of the HDDs has died so I want to swap it out for another. At the same time I'd like to increase storage to 500 or 750GB. Can I just plug in say a 500GB HDD, wait for it to sync, then swap out the other old drive for another 500GB drive?

Is it possible to mix 15K rpm SAS with 7.2K rpm SATA on Dell PowerEdge R610 on the same RAID configuration (Raid 5)? Is the SAS' speed going to drop to follow the lowest speed (the SATA speed)? and the storage cap, is it going to drop to the lowest?

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My company bought a Dell PowerEdge t710 server with:

48 GB ram 4x4 GB ethernet ports. RAID 5 for PERC H700 4 x 1TB, SATA, 3.5-in, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive (Hot Plug)

My job is to configure Hyper-V system infrastructure on this server.

I am working on decommissioning an old server for a client. The server is an older Dell PowerEdge 1600sc with four SCSI drives. Two are stand-alone, and the other two are in RAIDx (not sure the actual RAID id). It does not have an integrated RAID controller (nothing under integrated devices in the BIOS related to RAID), the client has a PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller PCI card for that.

Hi all,

I do not know much about server installation and I hope that someone could give me some help.

Hi,

Hope someone can help me out here.

I have a Dell Poweredge 2950 with 2X130GB and 2X2TB drives. I need to set them up in a RAID 1 array so that the 130GB Drives are mirrored and host the OS, while the 2TB drives are mirrored and are the content drives. So I go from 4 disks, down to two, one 130GB and one 2TB. I can do that in the BIOS RAID utility no problem.

I'm looking to replace an old PowerEdge 2450 that I have in a data center. It's a fairly low traffic web/email/ftp server.

I'm also looking for a Dell tower box to put at home on my FIOS connection so I can put a few 2-3 TB drives in it and use it for a home media/home network server.

Ideally I'm looking for particular model numbers that I can find used that support Ubuntu very well.

So here is what I have currently:

8 SAS Drives total 6 Drives setup as RAID 5 as Virtual 1. 1 Drive setup as Hot Spare. 1 Drive in Ready state that is not part of the RAID and is not set as a hot spare.

Basically, everything on this server is setup on the RAID 5 as one virtual disk (OS, data, etc) and partitioned out. I want to separate things out a bit.