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January 22nd, 2014 02:00
PowerEdge R620 raid controller with single hdd
Hello all
I have Dell PowerEdge R620 with 1*1Tb hdd,, Raid controller using H710 mini...When i'm trying to install Win Server 2008/R2 x64 the hdd not detect,, i already read in this forum cause of the hdd not detect is raid driver is not installed but i only have single hdd is it possible to configure raid with single hdd or i don't need use raid controller but i still don't understand how to configure the server with no raid...
Thanks....
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theflash1932
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January 22nd, 2014 19:00
Yes, the RAID controller. Which one do you have? I'll assume a PERC H710 for now:
The PERC H710 does NOT support non-RAID (you CANNOT use a disk alone without RAID) ... in order to use a single hard drive, you MUST configure a single-disk RAID 0. This must be done in the RAID controller's BIOS utility, accessed by pressing CTRL-R during POST when prompted.
Once configured, you MUST load the driver for the OS to see the drives attached to the controller.
If you have an H310, it DOES support non-RAID, so you don't have to configure anything in the RAID controller BIOS, HOWEVER, you still MUST load the RAID controller driver during the install.
DELL-Chris H
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January 22nd, 2014 06:00
Dimm21,
You would need to boot to the controller and then create a single drive Raid 0 with the drive. Then load the raid driver for the OS install to proceed.
What is the controller installed in the server?
Let me know.
Dimm21
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January 22nd, 2014 18:00
Sorry for the late reply,, do u mean raid controller in the server ??? if u mean that,, i still don't install the driver coz is brand new server i've got...
I want to know,, if posibble to install raid in single hdd and how to configure that....The raid controller in server is H710 mini
Thanks for ur reply
Dimm21
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January 22nd, 2014 19:00
So i just need configure my server to RAID 0.....
Thank u for very much.....
kurnosem
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January 7th, 2016 05:00
Did you lost your data of your drive? I'm trying to migrate a Perc h310 to Perc h710p and one of the drives where JBOD...
LukaszBojarski
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April 26th, 2021 01:00
Interesting is that the previously existing data on the single drive installed as a new RAID0 VirtualDisk in PERC is not always erased and can work and boot, even all the working Windows installation.
My case: When I installed a SSD, taken from a HP Elite 8300 Intel i5 desktop acting up to today as a cheap server, with running Windows 10 Pro and MS SQL Server on a single non-raid disk (of course I made an exact clone of the running disk before for security reasons, using Acronis Live Image) - in the PowerEdge 620 bay connected to the PERC controller, I configured a new Virtual Disk, I added to the new Virtual Disk my phisical disk, as a RAID 0, than I ACCEPTED THAT ALL DATA ON THE PHISICAL DISK WILL BE ERASED, than I changed the configuration of the PERC to boot from the new, just created Virtual Disk, and changed booting from BIOS to UEFI (booting from PERC controller of course), and I rebooted the server... it started the UNTOUCHED Windows 10 partition with the SQL Server installed.
The Windows 10 adapted very easy to the new hardware (PowerEdge 620, 2x 6core Xeon, PERC etc.) and my old server is running very well, I only had to set the Ethernet to the correct IP number ant that's all I saved a lot of time that I planned to reinstall the server or at least to connect the clonned drive to the internal SATA connector with external power source (a little bit dangerous from the ground cable potential point of view) and to clone it to a new, automatically cleared - as I expected - RAID0.
So, the warning that all the data on phisical disk will be erased is exaggerated in the condition where is only one phisical disk. It would be true if I added more than one disk (the data would be stripped among more disks under RAID0). But if there is only one disk - at least IT IS POSSIBLE (maybe it is always like this? can someone wiser or more experienced confirm that?) that the data on it remain untouched (saving a lot of work).