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Adding Hard Drive to Perc H710
We have a Dell T320 tower server with a Perc H710 and 3 - 2Tb SAS hard drives configured in RAID5. The 3 physical hard drives are configure with 2 virtual drives, 0 and 1. 0 is the OS and 1 has all the live data. All of this is done on Connector 0. I see that there is a Connector 1. My question is, can I add 3 identical hard drives to be used as a totally different data drive and set them up as RAID on Connector 1. Is so, how? Basically I want to increase my storage capacity without touching my existing OS (Virtual dirve 1) or Data (virtual Drive 2). Below are the Open Manage screen shots.
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August 15th, 2017 17:00
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It depends on the configuration you chose with the system. I show that the system can be ordered with a cabled drive configuration that supports up to 4 drives, x8 3.5" backplane, or an x16 2.5" backplane. If you ordered the system with a backplane then it should support more than four drives. If not, 4 is the max supported drives in a cabled configuration.
If you have a backplane then you will need drive carriers for the new drives and possibly a second SAS cable. Check to see if SAS B is connected to the controller. If it is not connected then you will need that cable for the additional slots on the backplane to be connected to the controller.
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