Comments on: Step-by-Step Guide to Configure Hardware RAID on DELL servers with Screenshots

By: Jason Nielsen

Jason Nielsen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:25:45 +0000

I am looking to do a RAID 1 on my XPS 8300 I recently purchased. Will I be able to follow the same general idea as this article? I have 1TB in my computer currently and purchased another TB that I want to use as a mirror to back up data.

In short, once I add the SATA drive to my computer can I access the BIOS menu and configure that drive to a RAID 1?

Thank You.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:25:58 +0000

How do you disable RAID-1 through bios/configuration settings ?

By: haveraels

haveraels — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:28:24 +0000

bonjours j ai un Dell PowerEdge 6850 a configurer 2 hdd de 36 et 3 de 146 a configurer en raid 5 et puis installer linux comment faire pour configurer le raid 5 dans le bios
merci
-Translation from French to English-
j hellos have a Dell PowerEdge 6850 has two hdd set of 36 146 and 3 to configure as RAID 5, and then install linux how to configure raid 5 in the bios
thank you

By: sunny

sunny — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:15:23 +0000

THANK YOU — YOU SAVED FROM LOSEING HOURS

By: ahmed

ahmed — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:41:09 +0000

Hi Ramesh

this is important information I was really need it ,I have a question for you
1 – I have a storage device that contain 6 HDD and this storage device connected to Dell server using SCSI Cards but it didn’t work ,is that above info of you applied on this case ?

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:39:29 +0000

Hi Ramesh,

these instructions worked great! Thank you, but I have an issue with reassigning the drive letters after doing this proceedure. I have added the new drives and I can change the drive letters on them. but I can not change the drive letter on the partition of the original drive. for example, I am tring the move drive “E” to the new drives and make the new drives “E”. I have attemped to change “E” drive to another letter and I get an error “The Operation was canceled due to an internal error”. i have been trying to do this through the disk manager.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:45:13 +0000

Thank you so much for this post. I have just purchased two Dell Poweredge 2850 and was struggling to configure the RAID. The above was clear and worked first time. I had found the utility but nowehere does it say anything about F10

By: Ghanashyam

Ghanashyam — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:30:44 +0000

This is very very nice article with screen shot. Excellent Article, it was very useful for me
Thank very much!!!

By: satya

satya — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:35:34 +0000

Hi Ramesh,

I would like to know how to recover data in case for failed raid card or server crash. Let me know the details which will help me in case of server crash.

Thanks,
Satya

By: Md. Kamrul Hasan

Md. Kamrul Hasan — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:51:33 +0000

My Server is using PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration Utility U827. In physical drive selection menu, I could not see any of my hard drives in RAID Ch-0 or SCSI Ch-1. Can any one help me?