Hard Drive Question

[garethEds]

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 rack server running two hard drives which are mirrored.

 

I want to add more storage but am not bothered if the third hard drive is mirrored or not. If I purchase a drive and plug it in will Server 2008 just recognise it as a single hard drive with all capacity offered to the OS?

 

GJE

[FN-GM]

This is more of a Dell Hardware Specific question. I think you can, dont quote me on that though

[Bezwick]

We have a 2850 here which we use as our main fileserver, last summer we needed to add extra capacity to it so bought 3 extra HDD and set them up as a RAID 5. I think i just used the Dell open manage software to do this, so i would guess you can do the same with a single HDD. But as i have never tried it cant say for sure.

 

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 rack server running two hard drives which are mirrored.

 

I want to add more storage but am not bothered if the third hard drive is mirrored or not. If I purchase a drive and plug it in will Server 2008 just recognise it as a single hard drive with all capacity offered to the OS?

 

GJE

[gibbo_ap]

if you plug in directly into the mobo the a quick format should offer it to the os.... at least in my understanding and experience

 

EDIT as in dont plug it into the array

[Sylv3r]

Hi Gareth

 

I think you should be fine as others have said. To plug in as normal and format using the OS.

[FN-GM]

Just thought, you would probably have to configure the drive to work under Raid 0