Dell R515 Server Issue

[ITGURU]

I inherited a Dell R515 server which I think has an issue with the hard drives.

It is fully populated with 8 x 300gb drives.

 

Within the dell server administrator when I look at the storage controller, connector 1 it shows drives 0:0:0 through to 0:0:3 and on connector 2 drives 1:0:4 to 1:0:6.

 

There are 2 virtual disks:

Disk 1 - System - Physical Disks 0:0:0 and 0:0:1 in a Raid 1 mirrored

Disk 2 - Data Drive - Physical disks 0:0:2 and 0:0:3 and 1:0:4 and 1:0:5 in RAID 10 - capacity 1.08TB after formatting.

 

Therefore I believe that I still have 2 spare drives I can use?

 

On the front of the server all drives have a power light, however when I go to create a virtual disk, I only get RAID 0 option.

if i'm correct I should also have a 1:0:7 drive on connector 2 so I can then create a raid 1?

 

Do I assume therefore that even though the drive has power that it could have a falty SAS connection so the server isn't seeing the drive on the data side?

[mukz]

Are they set as Global hot spares for that Raid?