expanding PERC 5/i Array

apilbeam · 28 Nov 2009 at 00:27

Hi Guys,

currently have a 3 disk RAID5 set up on my Dell PERC 5/i, just bought 2 more disks to expand the RAID5 array, however i cant find the option either in the software or the bios to add the new drives to the current array!

anyone successfully done this and know how to?

Thanks

apilbeam · 28 Nov 2009 at 01:26

ah thanks! that was simple! that option is pretty hidden though!

now to leave it overnight to rebuild!

Thanks Zarf

apilbeam · 29 Nov 2009 at 12:13

hey!

left the raid overnight to add the drive into the array and now all i get is a degraded raid array and the new disk says "unconfigured and good" tried making it a hotspare to see if it would rebuild onto it and but nothing changed.

any ideas? raid card is in a Windows 7 x64 PC, i have extended the drive in windows for it to use the full 4.5Tb raid5 but the dell/LSI software says its degraded still

any ideas?

apilbeam · 30 Nov 2009 at 10:05

managed to sort it late last nght, i just had to rebuild to the new drive.

the options in this software seem to be a pain to get to sometimes!

i think the card overheated whilst rebuilding though as it stopped detecting all drives at one point and now some of the data is corrupt!

apilbeam · 30 Nov 2009 at 14:48

there was a fan blowing onto it but i have now done some rearranging and cable tidying and the fan is now blowing more air onto it, i have also set it at 100% at least until the rebuild is done.

seems to be rebuilding fine now with no corrupt files so i just have to wait and try not to use it until the rebuild is done.

thanks for all the help guys!