Hard Drive Configuration with RAID 10 requires a maximum total Hard Drive capacity of 3600GB???

[David Sparks]

David Sparks wrote:
> David Sparks wrote:
>> Zach White wrote:
>>> David Sparks wrote:
>>>> I have 2 2950 servers with 4 1TB drives using the SAS/6i controller.  I want
>>>> to install a PERC6 addon PCIe and connect it to the 4 drives.  The online
>>>> "Build Your System" suggests that there will be a problem doing this so I'm a
>>>> bit worried.  Anyone on this list running a 2950 with 4 1TB SAS drives?
>>>>
>>> We have a 2950 and a 2970 which have 6 1TB drives each. I've set them up
>>> with all 6 drives in RAID5 and with 4 drives RAID1 and 2 drives RAID0.
>>> They seemed to work fine in all these
>>> configurations.
>>>
>>> I don't know about Dell's cart, or why they'd have that limit, but from
>>> a technical standpoint it seems to work.
>> Thanks, I finally got through to Dell who claim that the 3600GB limit is a
>> Windows Server limitation.  Based on these responses I'm going ahead and
>> ordering the PERC6 addon cards.
> 
> The PERC6 addon cards have arrived ... without batteries.  This means I can't
> use the write cache.

Problem solved, the battery comes in a separate, identical box to the
controller.  The tech here thought our order got doubled somehow and was
trying to send the "extra controller" back to Dell.  We opened the box and
presto we have our battery.

ds