Hello The PERC6i does not support non-RAID or pass-through. All drives will need to be a virtual disk member before they will be presented to the OS. The PERC6i does support single drive RAID 0. I don't think it is possible to go down to a single drive RAID 0 without losing data. You will likely need to delete and recreate the virtual disk. The terms used for changing the virtual disk without losing data are RAID Level Migration, Reconfigure, and Online Capacity Expansion. There is a section in the manual that covers what changes are possible. On the PERC6i all forms of virtual disk migration are performed through storage management software like OpenManage Server Administrator. [URL] [URL] A SAS/SATA universal carrier should accommodate SAS or SATA drives. It should have mounting points for each type of drive. Drives within a virtual disk do not need to be exactly the same. Several characteristics need to be the same, but brand and size can be different. You can find more information in the manual or other online resources. Thanks
Hi, I have a dell PowerEdge 2950 (3rd generation) with only one 2TB drive. I'll need additional storage on it, at least 2TB more. The configuration is set up via PERC 6/i. 1. Is it possible to remove the raid configuration and just use a non-RAID setup? And is it possible to do so without losing the data that's currently on the initial disk? 2. I see that the SAS caddy is labeled only for SAS and SATAu. So I can't use regular SATA drives? 3. Since the idea behind this is to just add 2-4TB of storage to the server, what would be the recommended thing to do in this scenario? I assume RAID 0 across all drives (which all need to be exactly matching both in size and brand)? Thank you.
Expanding storage on PowerEdge 2950 3rd gen