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Dell PE 2950 HDD adding a HDD to existing mirror.
Hi,
I have a working Dell PowerEdge 2950, Intel Xeon (2) CPU. It has two 160GB Hard drives (Bay 0 and 1) in mirror. Now its upto 80% full. What option I have here, to increase the drive space to 500 GB? I am not worried about redundancy, but would prefer doing the upgrade without disturbing the OS if possible (hate loosing the license while moving / reinstalling the server).
I have a DELL PERC 5/i Integrated RAID Controller. It has total of 6 bays, 2 has the 160GB HDD each, others are empty. Total memory 32GB.
Appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you
theflash1932
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July 31st, 2018 12:00
Easiest way is to add a disk and convert it to a 3-disk RAID 5.
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August 3rd, 2018 14:00
@theflash1932 thanks, looks like a good idea, but I have a couple of questions, assuming the new disk size also 160GB as the other two, On a RAID 5, I assume I will get n -1 total usable space, which is 320GB. Is that right? What are the steps involved, assuming that I have to use PERC 5/i BIOS configuration tool?