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PowerEdge 2950 additional non-RAID disk..?
Hi,
Our good ol' PE2950 came with two 73Gb drives as raid. These are not in use, but I wonder if I can plug in an additional 300Gb drive in the third slot and register it as a single, non-raid drive.
Is this possible ? If so, how do I do that correctly?
If it is not possible, can I unmount the two 73Gb drives from the raid and add the 300Gb as a non-raid drive...?
Thaks for comments on this
regards Tor
theflash1932
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April 16th, 2015 08:00
Depends on your RAID controller.
If you have a SAS 5/6, you can add a non-RAID drive.
If you have a PERC 5/6, it does not support non-RAID/JBOD; all disks must be in a RAID array (Virtual Disk) in order to be usable by the OS. To add a single disk, you must set it up as a RAID 0 (the only RAID level that will accept a single disk).