- #HOW TO SETUP RAID 0 IN BIOS INITIALIZE DRIVE INSTALL#
- #HOW TO SETUP RAID 0 IN BIOS INITIALIZE DRIVE WINDOWS#
If you're in a drive shopping mood, you should be able to find those at a relatively low price. I believe that the 146 drives may be able to act as a hot spare to the 73GB mirror, but I'd test that before you rely on it. If you're going to use this for production, you're going to want at least one more 146GB drive to act as a hot spare. Assuming that you don't have any to replace in the blank spaces, I'd do a RAID 1 of 73GB and a RAID 1 of the 146GB. If the amber light follows it, the drive is probably bad.Īssuming that's the case, you are left with 2 73GB drives and 2 146GB drives. If you've got a drive flashing, and you're not sure it's bad (it should mark it as failed in the bios setup screens), try swapping its place with another of the drives that bring up a green LED.
#HOW TO SETUP RAID 0 IN BIOS INITIALIZE DRIVE WINDOWS#
What confuses me coming from a home user XP background is that when I load up Windows Server 2008 OS under my computer I only see a C drive of about 70GB capacity. I think the flashing amber probably indicates a failing drive in slot 4, should that just be binned? Now what I think I am getting here is that the 2x 73GB drives mirror each other and the 2x 146GB drives mirror as well? so by my noob thinking if a drive fails I can pull it, insert and new one and it will reduplicate from its matching pair? I think that drives 0 and 1 are set to RAID 1 and drives 2 and 3 are also set to RAID 1, certainly I can see 2 logical drives, both raid 1 of 69880MB and 139900MB When I enter the PERC config screens on boot up I've got Raid Ch- 0
The current physical arrangement of the hot swap drives is 1 73GB 3 146GB 5 blankĠ 73GB 2 146GB 4 146GB (but flashes green, amber off) The box will run IIS, a mail and FTP server.
#HOW TO SETUP RAID 0 IN BIOS INITIALIZE DRIVE INSTALL#
Its a virgin install so no data to be lost as yet, so I'd like to get the best arrangement for setting up Windows Server 2008. I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 2850 as a web server, but as a server novice it's causing me some confusion.
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