Recent content by smidley

Can you explain how to do this in 2016? I'm looking at building a SS array with parity and I would like some way to expand it when I just add one physical drive.

It's a single RAID 5. Thanks for the advice!

I had them all in a RAID 6 before and then went back down to a RAID 5. This isn't critical information. I haven't had any issues with it until now when my controller started failing.

I know the card is failing because I keep getting firmware errors reported on it and bad PHY errors, and then the card will disappear from the system until I shut it down for awhile and reboot. I'm not going to put in any 8TB drives during this migration, but I want to be able to use them in...

I have a raid card that is failing and need to transfer the drives to a new controller without loosing the data. I am looking for the most cost effective way to do this. I currently have an LSI 9260-16i card that is dying. It's also connected with an HP SAS expander that is healthy. I have 19...

I have an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i (with BBU) and an HP SAS expander. I have 19x 2TB drives connected in a RAID 5. The RAID card is on it's way out though. I've been getting a lot of fatal firmware errors on it, and bad PHY errors. I need to determine a migration path off of this card and...

As the title states, I have a Promise Vtrak E610F array and I need to reconfigure it and monitor it.the default password has been changed on the unit and there is no documentation about what it could have been changed to. From what I can tell, the normal process for resetting the account is to...

I found out that my power supply is probably the issue. The fan isn't spinning and I'm guessing it's overheating when the server demands high power usage.

The data on the server is not critical, it's just my home server with mostly video content. I had the drives in a raid 6 previously, but stepped down to a raid 5 because I needed the extra space :)

What's the best way to check for bad caps?

First, the specs. Case: Norco 4220 Power Supply: Corsair 750W Motherboard: Tyan S7012 CPU: Intel Xeon E5540 RAM: 64gigs ECC DDR3 Raid Card: LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-16i Hard Drives: 1x 256gig SSD, 19x 2TB spindle drives. All spindle drives are in a RAID 5. Passthrough is used to present the raid...

The OS will be Server 2008 R2. I already have the RAID card and the NIC, so I will be using those for sure.

Ok guys, I'm going to be building a new server very soon to replace my existing one. The goal here will be maximum storage with a low price point. Here is what I have planned so far: Case: Norco 4220 RAID: LSI MegaRAID 9260-16i (PCI-e 8x) CPU: Intel Core i3 socket 1155 RAM: 8gigs DDR3 NIC...

Server is in perfect condition and works great! This server has been racked in a clean temp/humidity controlled server room. Comes with everything except hard drives. Does have the drive trays though. CPU's: 2x Intel Xeon E5410 RAM: 8x 1gig ECC RAID Card: Dell Perc 6/i with battery...

Thanks for the info guys. This is just for my home server, and not for a work production environment. It will be used to store video and music for streaming over the network.