Changing a RAID 0?

[talksr]

Good afternoon, I very recently purchased an HP HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 Intel® Xeon® E3-1220v2 Quad-Core (3.1GHz) server.

 

Unfortunately, the bursar made a mixup with the quantities and only ordered only one 500gb hdd.

I am extremely keen to get this set up. My question is, if I keep this system as a RAID 0 now, and install Server 2012 now on RAID 0 (one 500gb drive), can I add an additional 500gb without having to rebuild the RAID such that I could at least change the config to make a mirror?

 

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

[sted]

depends on teh controller or if you want to use software raid. some controllers will allow this some wont

[Ergo_Computing_IS_Support]

Hello,

 

Do you know the particular RAID card fitted to your server? It is sometimes possible, but its normally RAID card dependant.

 

Thanks.

[talksr]

depends on teh controller or if you want to use software raid. some controllers will allow this some wont

 

Hello,

 

Do you know the particular RAID card fitted to your server? It is sometimes possible, but its normally RAID card dependant.

 

Thanks.

 

Hi, thanks for both of your posts, I have the standard raid controller for this server. Not entirely sure which it would be.

It says on documentation HP Smart Array controller, not sure if that helps.

[sted]

Hi, thanks for both of your posts, I have the standard raid controller for this server. Not entirely sure which it would be.

It says on documentation HP Smart Array controller, not sure if that helps.

 

unfortunately smart array covers a wide multitude of sins but id err on the side of caution and say no as its better to be wrong and loose nothing but time waiting for a drive than kill a server install

[Michael]

I'd advise you that no it can't. Install as new on your new RAID1 when the second hard disk arrives.

[Ergo_Computing_IS_Support]

The documentation is here... http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c03326739

 

I sense that because the b120 is (fitted as standard) is the basic RAID card it will most likely not support this functionality.

[talksr]

Thanks guys, I will ask her to order another, so annoying, but I would rather be safe than sorry.

[mikkydoos]

I think those have only got RAID 0 and 1 anyway. U'll need two discs to set up an array full stop