Add SSD to T7500

Hi dhandzic,

What do you see in disk management?

So the RAID manager shows the disks are not in a RAID?

Yes, the disks are attached to the SAS 6/ir controller which can handle JBOD, RAID0, RAID1. Initially the computer had only one 256 GB SSD thus no RAID. Now I want to attach another 256GB SSD since the first disk is filling up and still I dont want the disks to be in a RAID.

DAHNDZIC, when you use a RAID controller, the physical disks are abstracted from the OS which wont see the physical disks in the same way you normally see ATA connected HDD.

If you want JBOD array and the card support this feature, then you physically connect the HDD to the controller at which point you must add the HDD to JBOD array using the controller boot menu (ctrl+r or +i or +c depending on the card)  or you can use the windows raid card application to do the same. As such windows disk management will never sees the physical HDD, it just sees an increase in the available space on the abstracted disk (your bunch of disk). You must then extend this volume to make the extra space available to your OS using disk management :)

It's a little convoluted but if you play with JBOD or RAID you need to stop thinking about physical disks in the same way you have done to date. For SAS6/i controller capabilities and procedures, i defer to others :)