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Second Raid Controller in T610
I have a PE T610 with a H700 Raid Controller and 8 hdd bays which are all full.
The H700 supports two arrays and neither are very big because of the size of the SAS drives fitted, so I want to install two 4Tb SATA drives in a Raid 1 configuration, but how can I best do this.
Can I remove two of the drives from the Raid 10 on the H700 and replace them with the two 4Tb drives
Can I fit another Raid controller, although I don't where I fit the drives.
I need some ideas
DELL-Daniel My
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July 12th, 2018 13:00
Hello
Yes, you can mix SAS and SATA on the controller. You can't mix drive types within a virtual disk. You will be unable to resize the RAID 10, so it will be in a degraded state if you remove two disks. Reconfiguration of a RAID 10 is unsupported, so you would need to delete and recreate the RAID 10 to resize it. You can find out more about reconfiguration tasks and RAID level migration in the OpenManage Server Administrator Storage manual.
http://www.dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals/
http://www.dell.com/openmanagemanuals/
Only one internal controller is supported. Adding more drives or another internal controller would not be supported. The system does support up to two external controllers. You can connect something like the PERC6e to an external storage device. The slot priority for adding external controllers should be in the system service manual.
http://www.dell.com/support/
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July 12th, 2018 22:00
Thanks Daniel
Deleting and recreating the RAID 10 would be my best option, I could then remove two of the drives from the array and install my two 4Tb SATA Drives as Raid 1,but will the H700 support 3 array's
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July 13th, 2018 08:00
Yes, you should be able to locate the virtual disk limitations of the controller in one of the links I provided. The virtual disk limit is well beyond three.