May 6, 2009 at 11:09 am
Hi guys,
I need to buy a new drive for our server. My team wants me to pick up a 1tb drive. We have a Dell server
with a raid controller DELL PERC 5/1 . I know the server has 8 bays and they are hot swap drives. We just need to add one new drive to the server to put some databases on because we are running out of room. Is there anything special I need to know about buy a new drive? I am looking at the WD Caviar Black 1TB 7,200RPM Serial ATA-300 Hard Drive. Would this work?
Thanks
May 6, 2009 at 11:16 am
What configuration are those hot-swappable bays? Usually on servers with this kind of technology the drives are SCSI, so if you want to put that drive in the bay, more than likely a SATA disk won't work.
May 6, 2009 at 11:23 am
Here is our current configuration
Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 2
CPUIntel Quad Core 3.0 GHz x 2 (8 cores total)
RAM46 GB
RAID ControllerDELL PERC 5/1
Partition 0 (C:)67.7 GB
Partition 1 (D:)557 GB
Partition 2 (G:)278 GB
Partition 3 (I:)557 GB
External Disk (X:)Seagate 500GB
External Disk (H:)WDC WD12 00JB-75CRA0 USB Device 111 GB
CD DriveHL-DT-ST CDRW/DVD GCC4482
May 6, 2009 at 11:27 am
Drive letter assignments don't neccesary map to the number of physical disks on your server, especially if the drives are participating in a RAID array.
Lets get this out of the way first - Does your server have a SATA (Serial ATA) disk controller? If not that drive you're looking at won't work until you get one.
Edit - quick google search on the DELL PERC 5/1 raid controller doesn't show me if it will support Serial ATA.
May 6, 2009 at 11:33 am
For each of the 4 drives inside the server it say Dell Perc 5/1 SCSI disk device.
May 6, 2009 at 11:35 am
Yeah ok I doubt that drive will work. I found your controller card on Dell's website and it looks like it supports Serial attached SCSI disks, not SATA.
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