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October 15th, 2004 13:00
power edge 2650
I am new to the Power Edge and I just inherited a Power Edge 2650 - how can I tell what the Raid setup is.
This is a Windows 2003 Server, there are 4 disks of 73GB , but have two drives C: and D:
Drive C: has approx. 50 GB partition, and D: has 155GB partition.
If this was a raid 5 setup wouldn't there only be a total space of 73GB. How else could this be setup.
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MarcusJClifford
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October 15th, 2004 15:00
It sounds to me like a RAID 5 array, which has been partitioned via the operating system into 2 partitions.
The easiest way to check is to go into the RAID controller's menu when the system is next rebooted and look for an option like "View Configuration" or something.
The second option is to install Dell OpenManage which can tell you almost everyting you ever wanted to know about your server (and more)
With RAID 5 the total diskspace is (DiskSize*NumDisks)-DiskSize
So in your example it is (73*4)-73 = 219GB usable space.
219-155= 64 which is ~ 50GB when you take into account the Byte / KB / MB / GB conversions.
zmobile
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October 18th, 2004 14:00