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Can I increase my Dell RAID 1 from 250GB to 500GB just by plugging in larger drives?
I have a Dell PowerEdge R300 with a Dell SAS 6/iR Internal Controller RAID PCIe and two 250GB SATA HDDs in RAID1 configuration. One of the HDDs has died so I want to swap it out for another. At the ...
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When ordering SAS replacement drive, does the hot swappable enclosure matter?
I have a dell PowerEdge and need to replace one of the SAS drives in it. I noticed the supplier I order from does not sell a specific "DELL" SAS replacement drive, but they have what appear to be ...
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renaming hard drives (sdc to sdb) on the fly
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
kernel: [2761026.198796] ata2: soft resetting link
kernel: [2761031.226669] ata2.00: disabled
kernel: [2761031.226720] ata2: EH complete
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Hotplug vs. non-hot plug disks
I have more or less hardware question related to hotplug or non-hotplug hdd. I plan to get HP P2000 G3 FC/iSCSI storage system, and I was going to order the disks. One costs 300eur.. So my question
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How to power off a hard drive to essentially “hot swap”
I'm looking for either freeware or the programming basics to power off/on a hard drive. Mounting and unmounting a hard drive is simple enough just using the command prompt in Windows XP. Now I need ...
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Why is hotswap so much more expensive?
I am currently looking a building a server, and am comparing hardware. In particular I have been looking at hard drives. It seems like hotswap hard drives are significantly more expensive than normal ...
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Are there any tricks for installing a hot swap drive in a Poweredge 2900
I just bought a bought a couple of new drives from Dell for a Poweredge 2900 server. I installed them in the hot swap caddy and am attempting to install.
My understanding is I can just remove the ...
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Can any hard drive of the same format be put into a hot-swap tray?
I'm looking at buying a hot-swap NAS that supports SATA/SATA II hard drives. Can I get any SATA drive and put it into the hot-swap trays it comes with, or will I need to find a certain kind of drive?
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