Can i have no RAID on a 1950 ?

gregorcy gregorcy at eng.utah.edu
Mon Jan 21 15:21:42 CST 2008


Philou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today a co-worker told me that he couldn't manage to get his brand new 1950 server
> installed without RAID
> 
> He said he wanted a "standard/old way" install which is : OS on first drive, data on second drive.
> 
> But according to Dell's hotline, this can't be done, it _has_ to be either RAID0 or RAID1.
> 
> Is that true ? Is there no way to do what my co-worker wants ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philippe
> 


I wouldn't take much advise from your co-worked :)

Maybe you should suggest that he set it up as a RAID 1 and then partition the drives into 2 partitions.  An OS partition 
and a data partition.



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