PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) is a Dell-branded RAID controller that is manufactured by LSI.
PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) is a Dell-branded RAID controller that is manufactured by LSI.
Questions tagged [dell-perc]
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PERC H730 or H330
Would you get any any benefits going with the more expensive H730 vs H330?
We are planning SSDs only. Would the 1 GB Write cache do any good in this case? Other than that the only difference I see is the H730 is supporting raid6 and 60 while H330 is…
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Pull out virtual disk and re-insert later?
I'm entirely new to RAID management and the Dell PERC H710, but finding myself having to work with one. Hoping to get some advice before I do anything foolish.
My situation is that we have a PowerEdge T320 with a RAID 1 virtual disk consisting of 2…
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raid 5 over 12 disks and failed two hard can rebuild
i have installed 12 hard drives 4 TB Black Caviar make raid 5 and suddenly failed two drives at same time can rebuild raid if i replace failed drives with new drives. my data is still available or not data is very important.
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How to check Dell PERC H710 RAID drive status
I want to confirm that both the drives in our system are correctly added to the RAID 1 array on the server. The RAID card is a Dell PERC H710 controller.
From the iDRAC interface, it shows one drive as "Online" and one drive as "Ready":
However,…
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Dell PERC 5 - RAID-10 keeps rebuilding drive 2 every day
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with this card: RAID bus controller [0104]: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5 [1028:0015] and six disks in a RAID-10.
I replaced drive 2, because it didn't show up, and then it started to rebuild…
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Can I plug a Dell Perc H200I card on the PCIe on a MSI h81m-e35 motherboard?
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I have a Dell Perc H200I card, which is a x8 PCIe card, that I want to flash to IT Mode. Sadly it can't be done on my Dell server as megarec command does not work. So I'm trying to do the flash on other computer with a MSI h81m-e35…
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PERC 5 no option to change learn cycle to Auto
To avoid WUG alerts I am changing all PERC battery learn cycles to warn. I am not able to figure out how to change the learn cycle from auto to learn on any of my PERC 5. The PERC 6, H700 & H800 show Learn Mode in Server Administrator, but it is not…
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Poweredge R900 Perc 6/i
I have a Poweredge R900 server with Perc 6/i and a 3.5" x 5 backplane. I've been using (4) 600GB Dell SAS 15k drives in a RAID 10 configuration with no 5th drive. I just got around to adding a 5th drive to the server and I'm having problems getting…
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PERC H700: "Virtual disk creation failed" Why?
I try to create a new VD on a drive from the PERC config. I get:
"Virtual disk creation failed"
The drive has been used before in another system.
What do I need to clear, before I can use the drive?
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DELL PERC status needs attention
if anyone is familiar with Dell PowerEdge Raid Controllers (PERC) that are in servers,
I have a PERC H740P that when you go F2 into the BIOS then navigate to the PERC device it says STATUS: needs attention.
does anyone know how to figure out what…
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