RAID

Looking for NAS solution

I have a number of IDE drives (between 250GB - 500GB) that I have out grown over the years. I was curious whether anyone is aware of a NAS (100/GB Int) device or similar chasis / enclosure (USB/Firewire) that accepts IDE drives and is affordable? I would prefer to have all three connections. I...

Raid 0 Set up internal to external drive

I have a Dell 420xps. It came with a 320gb sata drive. I have added a 500gb "internal" hard drive. I also added a 250gb USB "external" hard drive and a 500gb eSata "external" hard drive. I would like to run raid 0 on the 500gb internal and 500gb external and leave the other 2 as they are. Can this...

Will adding eATA interfere with my current RAID setup?

I just go a new eATA 1.5 TB harddrive what i like to ad to my setup as data back up drive on board i have 4 eATA conections 2 are used for raid 0 this is the setup CybertronPC X-Cruiser SLI AMD Gaming PC – AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz, 4GB DDR2-667, 2x250GB SATA II (RAID 0), DL DVD±RW, 2x...

Trouble creating a RAID array with VMWare ESX3i

Hi, We’ve set up VMWare ESX3i on a single disk on our HP DL140 Server. We’re now trying to set up a RAID array, using the in-built LSI Logic SAS1068 RAID controller. Unfortunately, it says that there’s not enough space at the end of the disk, and it would need to be formatted, in order to...

Can RAID 0 volume be deleted and re-added with no data loss?

I have a Dell Precision 690 Workstation with an LSI Integrated RAID controller. I have a 2-disk RAID 0 (what LSI refers to as an IS or Integrated Striping) volume. Recently the motherboard was replaced (and the RAID controller is integrated onto the motherboard). Ever since the motherboard...

Dell Poweredge 2800 will not reboot after RAID 5 install

I have a Dell Poweredge 2800. My situation is that i added 2 hard drives and setup Raid 5 successfully. I installed windows server 2003 and it finds the drives. "a disk read error has occurred" Any help?

RAID

I currently have four 1 Terabyte HDD. I'm planning on setting up a RAID 1, however I would like to get more space. I researched RAID 5 and read plenty of negative opinions about it. I hate to waste so much space, but I can't take such a large risk for data loss. If anyone could recommend a...

Iseries fails to boot

I have a v5r4 820 model that failed. Error code in display is 284C3203 which pointed to I/O problem for either system board or Disk controller. I replace both and the only way I can get past this error is by using the new disk card with the new RAID memory. The old RAID memory card seems to have...

Half duplex vs full duplex

Recently the application running on one of our clusters had problems when some of the servers had problems accessing the NFS storage. The analysis showed there to be a mismatch between the QFE interfaces and the network protocol. The QFEs were operating at half duplex while the network was...

Installation time for disk drives

How much time should be allocated to install a 5095 with one 2780 PCI-X Ultra RAID Disk Controller and 12 - 4327 70.56GB 15k rpm Disk Drives?

DataBase Restore

I'm working with SQL Server 7 and I made a backup from a DataBase and I need to restore it, but this error appear: "The RAID set for database is missing member number 1". What can I do???

How to build or install RAID in Windows XP?

hello to all, i m using window Xp and now want to installed RAID ,but i ve no idea, so kindly ,how to installed RAID and wat is the installation method, thank you.

How to rebuild RAID without obstructing data migration?

I see why RAID rebuilds obstruct data migration. A RAID rebuild is NOT like backup and restore. The rebuild consumes resources, e.g. CPU etc. So if we have the RAID on a separate system (managed by its own CPU) then: Surely this allows a RAID rebuild without obstructing data migration? Do you...

hp server installation HP ML350T05 server with 4 quantity 146 GB SAS hard disk drives

i have HP ML350T05 server with 4 quantity 146 GB SAS hard disk drives. i want to configure raid and mirroring. but i dont know anything about it. plz suggest a to z process to do that. suggest any link which referrs this issue.

VMWare ESXi RAID issues on installation. Dell 600SC server

I have a Dell Power Edge 600SC server with a RAID card. At the install screen, I press ALT-F1 and I see that the megaraid2 drivers load, but the installation still cannot find a supported device to install too. user submitted question

RAID 5

I JUST WANT TO KNOW, HOW TO CONFIGURE RAID5? I DON'T HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT RAID I KNOW WHY IT USED BUT DON'T HAVE MORE KNOWLEGE SO PLEASE GIVE KNOWLEDGE IN TOP TO BOTTOM

What type of Raid to use on Windows Servers and tempdbs?

I have a SQL Server with eight disks, and I am not sure if I should use Raid 10 twice, one for Windows Server 2003 with NDFs and the other for the log file and tempdb, or apply Raid 1 for the Windows Server, Raid 10 for the NDF and MDF, and Raid 1 again for the tempdb and log. What would you...

Adding DASD to an IBM 9406-800 RAID

System has Device Parity Protection and PCI-X RAID disk unit controller. Currently have 4 17.54GB drives installed and need instruction on how to install 2 additional drives. Know how to physically install drives need to know the SST steps for intalling, formating and configuring the new drive...

Reconnecting data store to reload of ESX

My ESX server died due to hw failure. My data store resides on a seperate RAID5 set and I need to reconnect the datastore to my new ESX load. How can I do this without destroying the data in my disconnected /vmfs datastore?

RAID I want to take Ghost image for windows in RAID5 and able to restore the image again

I want to take Ghost image for windows in RAID5 and able to restore the image again when the system fails or something happed in the drive