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Raid controller is a device to manage physical disks

Raid controller is a special device used to manage multiple physical disks and present them as logical units. It implements hardware raid. It can be referred to also as disk array controller.

Disk array controllers provide:

  1. Backend interface to communicate with the controlled disks such as SATA, SCSI, etc..
  2. Frontend interface to communicate with the computer host such as HBA.
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HP Proliant ML350 G5 - smart array initializing

I have a big problem with a HP ProLiant ML350 G5 with 2 SAS HDD 146GB. It start with the message : "Slot 0 HP Smart Array E200i ... initializing" without any error message. if I test the HDD with the Maintenance utility, it doesn't find any Disk ! I…
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Merge two sas card into one

I have one existing raid card (9240-8i)with 8 sas hdd, but i want to add 8 more hdd with another raid card (same model), but i wan to merge with existing raid and add it as expansion, can it be done?
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Installing drivers on HP B320i Controller Card?

In order to get vCenter to recognize the logical array that has been created, it looks like I need to update the Controller Card drivers. I think I have found them here…
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Improving Hard Drive controllers and Software RAID

I believe the biggest pro of hardware RAID is that, providing your RAID controller is battery backed, you can enable write-back cache. This can also be achieved similarly through software RAID with specific OSes and SSDs acting as the cache. This…
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HP P800 PCI controller disables(!) HP 410i internal controller

I have a HP DL360 G6 server with a very strange RAID controller behavior. I installed a P800 PCI RAID Controller card and all of the sudden I cannot access my hard drives that are connected to the internal P410i controller. To be more precise, the…
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How do you get into the interface on a ProLiant DL 366 G7 and set RAID? (Smart Array 410 P)

How do you get into the interface on a ProLiant DL 366 G7 and set RAID? Into the Smart Array P410 controller?
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Gparted not detecting controller after removing a drive

Ran into a weird scenario. Installed 5 hotswap HDD drives on a HP SmartArray P410 RAID controller running RAID-5. Went into Gparted and created different partitions. Realized one of the drives was faulty. Removed it. Rebooted into Gparted. It now…
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move raid hard drives between different servers, preserving data

Possible Duplicate: Move raided hard drives between identical servers, preserving data I'm a server beginner working with a Sun x4600 and an IBM x3650. In the event that one of them dies, I want to have a plan for removing the hard drives from…
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Move raided hard drives between identical servers, preserving data

I have a raid array of hard drives in a Sun x4600 that need to be moved out, and another Sun x4600 ready to accept those hard drives. The problem is: in my limited experience with servers, it seems like hard drives added to a server always get wiped…
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Can I configure a RAID 1 on the Dell Poweredge 860 with the onboard SATA Controller

Is there a way to set up a RAID 1 with two SATA HDD on a DELL Poweredge 860 that has no specific RAID Controller? I want to use the on board SATA controller to set up my RAID 1.
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How to determine the real disk size of an hardware RAID?

I have a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S3 server running Win Server 2003 R2 SP2. It has hardware-RAID using an LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP RAID Controller. I simply want to find the size of each disk in the RAID array. How can I find this…
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Lost rebuilding state after every reboot on server with raid controller P410i/zero memory

I have installed a server HP Proliant ML350 with P410i RAID controller with Zero memory, (windows 2008 standard running). I have set up Raid 1+0 with two hard disk SAS and, as usually, I tested raid pull one hard disk. After that, I insert in the…
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System Event ID 9 pointing to \Device\Scsi\fttxr5_O1 happens at the same time daily

OS: Windows 2003 Roles: Exchange Server, Primary DNS Server Device: Promise TX4310 The problem: Almost every day for the last couple of months at around 8:00 PM (no earlier than 8:02, no later than 8:08) and again at around 2:30 AM a series of 3 or…
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2 JBOD enclosures 1 RAID controller vs 2 RAID enclosures

In term of scalability of performance and price, what would be better for a small business with around 20 users. I am targeting around 45TB of storage via SAS. Here are my options: Buy 2 JBOD enclosures and install 1 RAID controller card to my file…
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What RAID controller for ESXi 4 on Optiplex 330

What HW RAID controller to use with Dell Optiplex 330 running vmware esxi 4? I found e.g Adaptec RAID 2405 is ESXi 4 compatible but I'm not sure whether it will work in PCIe 16x slot as I red sometimes desktop PCIe are "graphic card only". Thanks
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