Keith Frank

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February 17th, 2017 10:00

R900 2.5 drive size limits?

We recently purchased an R900. I tried to use 2 western digital black 1TB hard drives set up in a RAID1

The array was successfully created and was seen as Optimal. But after a short period of time I get a an HDD fault on that array (both drives blinking amber). I bought  a new WD Black 1TB drive thinking that I might have a bad drive. I attempted to create a new array with the new drive and got the same error but again the RAID controller saw no problem with the array(but still two blinking amber lights). I was beginning to think that my PERC 6i card might be bad. As a test I wiped one of my new WD 1TB Black drives inserted jut that drive in the box and booted up. It was green for the first minute or so after boot and then it began blinking amber with a HDD error again. I tried the other 3 of my WD 1TB drives one by one with the same result. Lastly I found an older 120GB WD drive and tried that drive. This time there was no HDD Error message and the light has remained green. I doubt that I have 4 bad WD 1TB Black Drives. My guess is that the r900 has a drive capacity limit and that a 1TB Drive is too large. Can anyone confirm this and tell my what the drive size limit is for the R900 using 2.5 drives?