I noticed there are some models that only have 4 bays available and have the other 4 protected by plastic...
Can you still transform these into 8 bay servers? Why do some of the r520s have the remaining 4 blocked, while others do not?
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According to the owner's manual, the 4-bay systems are software RAID and the 8-bay systems are hardware RAID.
It also says:
NOTE: Dual slot hard-drive blanks are available only on software RAID systems. The blank hard-drive slots are not available for software RAID.
So if you have a 4-bay system you cannot use all eight slots unless you first upgrade the system to hardware RAID.
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