We have a Dell Poweredge Server running SBS 2008 with a Perc 6/i controller and 3x 250GB HDDs. One of the drives on a RAID5 set has degraded so will need to be replaced. I thought that as the server was getting low on space it might be an idea to increase the size of the drives while I'm at it.
Is this possible with Perc 6/i and if so are there any gotchas I should be aware of?![Dell Hard Drive Controller Driver Dell Hard Drive Controller Driver](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126062627/144556171.jpg)
I'm aware of the 2GB limit of Perc6 but does that apply to the final virtual disk size or the individual disks?
Happy to use an alternative partition manager if EaseUS is a no go. Will the Windows Disk Management 'Extend Volume' even work?
The server is well out of warranty and don't want to give the job to the overexpensive Dell engineers for something that in normal situations is quite straightforward.
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On other RAID controllers I've used, it's been quite straightforward but time consuming to simply replace the drives one by one letting each newly inserted drive rebuild and then after all drives have been rebuilt, use EaseUS Partition Manager to extend the partitions. Is this possible with Perc 6/i and if so are there any gotchas I should be aware of?
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Happy to use an alternative partition manager if EaseUS is a no go. Will the Windows Disk Management 'Extend Volume' even work?
The server is well out of warranty and don't want to give the job to the overexpensive Dell engineers for something that in normal situations is quite straightforward.
I've been back and forth with Dell about their RAID cards for a PowerEdge R710 server. So far half the customer service people who I spoke too said it would work, the other half said no.
My question to them was simply this:
I have a PowerEdge R710 and looking to use 6TB SATA HD's with the 6 hotswapable slots on my R710. Would the H710 RAID card handle all 36TB of storage just fine or would it be limited to XXTB of storage instead?
And like I said above - half said yes while the other half said no - so now I'm stuck in the middle of not knowing what to do - put down the $300+ to purchase the H710 RAID card or spend that money on a newer motherboard that has at least 6 SATA III connectors on the motherboard?
Hopefully someone here has done this before or, at the very least, has better knowledge of the RAID cards from Dell then Dell themselves.
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From the H710 Spec Sheet:
Up to 64 logical drive and 64TB LUN support
So in answer to your actual question, the card itself supports LUN sizes as high as you're wanting.
The real problem you may run into is that the H710 card is validated & tested with 12th generation server hardware it was released alongside, e.g. the R720. Your R710 only 'supports' the H700 controller. I've not had any experience with trying to mix-and-match different server/card generations between 11th and 12th gen, so that would be what you should do some researching and digging on at this point.
Dell p/n NWCCG (6TB Seagate NL-SAS drive) is validated for the R720, and the H710 supports Dell-validated drives... so the controller itself most certainly can handle the drive capacity. There are no validated 6TB drives for the R710 though.
I fully expect that this setup would probably work fine if the controller will even work at all in your 11th gen server. Since you've already thrown down money on the card, and you already have the 11th gen server, I'd recommend you try buying a single 6TB drive (non-Dell should work fine for personal use - newest controller firmware won't 'reject' them). Connect the drive and see whether you're able to use the full 6TB capacity before buying 5 more drives. As stated above, the max LUN size is well above what you have in mind.
You'll likely never get a 100% certain answer on this question without testing it yourself - not when you're mixing different gen hardware and trying these high-capacity drives at the same time. Good luck though!
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Is your project highly performance dependent since the very beginning? If not, you may be better going with software RAID now. If your OS of choice is GNU/Linux (no OS info in question) then supported is DDF-based mdraid. H710 specs also indicate support for DDF, so in case you need HW RAID controller in the future the migration should be piece of cake.
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