Re: HP Proliant ML350
- From: "James Smith" <mr_goldphish@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:51:45 -0500
"Chris Rennert" <crennert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Chris Rennert wrote:
>> We have that ProLiant ML350, we have 3 Ultra320 36.4gb Hard drives (I
>> believe they are HP drives). Well, I have a feeling they are running
>> Raid 0 instead of Raid 1 , and I believe that was a reason that when we
>> had a drive fail in the machine another time, it took out windows as
>> well. Is there a way on the ML350 I can view what Raid it is running.
>> With 3 drives I would have a hard time believing they are doing
>> mirroring. Also, if it is running Raid 0 , can I purchase 2 more drives,
>> and run Raid 1 instead? Couple issues, the 36.4gb HD's are only 20
>> cheaper than the 72.8gb drive. Can I mix and match drive sizes.
>>
>> The raid controller is a "Smart Array 532";
>>
>>
>> Thank you all for any help you can give me!
> Ok, figured more information out. It is running Raid 5, and again we have
> 3 36.4gb Ultra320 disks. In windows, it is configured as one 70gb logical
> drive, partitioned into 2 basic drives , an 8gb, system partition, and a
> 62gb, data patition (C: & D: respectively).
>
> My issue is 2 years ago, one of the drives failed, bringing down the whole
> system , and from what I understand the Boot sector is not protected, and
> I believe this is why we had to reinstall to recover.
>
> My thought is to purchase more drives, and migrate to Raid 1, because
> fault tolerance is much more important to us than performance. I am not
> sure if I am missing something, or if there is a better solution.
>
> I appreciate once again any help you can give me :-)
>
> Chris
I may be wrong but I thought that hardware RAID 5 would protect everything
if one driver failed. RAID 1 should work, but I don't see an easy way to
change from 5 to 1 without removing the existing partitions, but this maybe
because I am looking at my server RAID configuration, which is an older
version. I have a ProLiant 800 with five 9.1GB drivers in a RAID 5 array on
a Compaq 2DH RAID controller.
James
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