I have the same issue but I have 3 250Gb drives and a raid 5. Can someone tell me if I can replace the old drives with 3 new 1Tb drives? I figured going with 1Tb drives was more likely compatible and less expensive. Right now I'm getting a lot of "that should work" and "I'm not sure"...from the stores (Best buy and Fryes). I don't want to buy them and then find out it won't work.
Poweredge 1800, windows server 2003, Dell Cerc Sata 1.5/6ch Raid Controller, LSI Logic 1020/1030 Ultra 320 SCSI adapter. Under the drives it says Dell Array SCSI Disk Device. I've looked at the drives and I believe they were WD 250Gb SATA drives. So I'm not sure if this is being ran as SCSI or Sata...If that's what you're wondering. I figured I would go after WD black SATA 1Tb drives, but again I'm not sure if that's going to work. If you need more information, let me know, but I might have to dig up my paperwork for this server.
at5147
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October 19th, 2010 13:00
That controller does not support over 1TB drives and the array cannot be larger than 2TB.
Dev Mgr
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October 19th, 2010 11:00
Some more information wouldn't hurt.
- raid controller model (or maybe you use onboard harddrive controller)?
- what raid configuration do you have? (raid 1 seems likely, but if you are running a raid 0, 2 x 2TB isn't going to be an option)
carlosmarin
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October 19th, 2010 13:00
Raid 1
Raid Controller is CERC SATA 1.5/6ch
carlosmarin
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October 19th, 2010 13:00
what is the max the raid supports?
at5147
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October 20th, 2010 13:00
I assume you mean RAID levels? If so, it supports 0, 1, 5 and 10.
cdvmc
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February 19th, 2013 11:00
I have the same issue but I have 3 250Gb drives and a raid 5. Can someone tell me if I can replace the old drives with 3 new 1Tb drives? I figured going with 1Tb drives was more likely compatible and less expensive. Right now I'm getting a lot of "that should work" and "I'm not sure"...from the stores (Best buy and Fryes). I don't want to buy them and then find out it won't work.
DELL-Rey G
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February 19th, 2013 11:00
same model system and raid card or which models do you have?
cdvmc
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February 19th, 2013 12:00
Poweredge 1800, windows server 2003, Dell Cerc Sata 1.5/6ch Raid Controller, LSI Logic 1020/1030 Ultra 320 SCSI adapter. Under the drives it says Dell Array SCSI Disk Device. I've looked at the drives and I believe they were WD 250Gb SATA drives. So I'm not sure if this is being ran as SCSI or Sata...If that's what you're wondering. I figured I would go after WD black SATA 1Tb drives, but again I'm not sure if that's going to work. If you need more information, let me know, but I might have to dig up my paperwork for this server.