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July 12th, 2019 08:00
Problem with Dell PowerEdge R630 hard drive
Hello,
I install 8 x 1.2TB HARD DRIVE + 2 x 300GB SAS in my R630 server, and unfortunately none of them are in my RAID card. How can I make the hard drives recognized in my RAID configuration?
We have two types of RAID in the server, Dell PERC H330 Mini Mono 12Gb / s SAS RAID Controller and Dell PERC S130 for the hardware if I am not mistaken. Hard drives have a fixed green flashing (Under All Reserves).
What happens if I have a steady green flashing?
What happens if I have a flashing green?
The trays / caddies come with Dell's original hard drives it seems to me, but again, I can not confirm it, the hard drives were purchased from Trace3 directly.
I have no idea if RAID is enabled in the BIOS, the BIOS one is the S130 RAID card?
I would also like to put my 8 hard disks x 1.2TB SAS 10K 12Gbps in RAID 0 and 2 x 300GB in RAID 1 for the operating system, the other partition is for VM for Exsi.
Dell-DylanJ
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July 12th, 2019 13:00
A steady green light would indicate that the drive is online and in a healthy state. A blinking green light would indicate drive activity, and an alternating green/amber LED would indicate predictive failure.
As for the RAID config, I would first check to confirm that you have your SATA setting to AHCI, not RAID on. This will disable the S130 controller. The backplane should be connected to the H330. You can then go into the H330 utility using control + R for BIOS mode, or from Device Settings in the F2 menu. You'll want to look for the option to convert to RAID capable for the drives. Once they're converted, you should be able to create your RAID volumes.
As for creating an 8 drive RAID 0 to house your VMs and data, I can't say I would recommend that RAID level, considering there would be an elevated chance for VD failure, since a RAID 0 has no redundancy. If you're certain you want to go with a RAID 0, I would definitely recommend making regular backups and also verifying those backups.
R630 Owner's Manual: https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/poweredge-r630_owners-manual_en-us.pdf
I've also linked you to the owner's manual for the server, so you have reference material for where settings are located.
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July 15th, 2019 08:00
"I would also like to put my 8 hard disks x 1.2TB SAS 10K 12Gbps in RAID 0 and 2 x 300GB in RAID 1 for the operating system, the other partition is for VM for Exsi."
Are the VM's going to be replicating to another server or backing up regularly or are the VM's going to be 100% expendable (unimportant) if not replicating somewhere?
Don't use RAID 0. No redundancy, no error correction, and you are pretty much guaranteed to experience data loss at some/many points with that config. RAID 6 or 10 would be recommended for critical workloads.