T110-II w / Perc H200, using consumer SSD RAID1

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• BSOD drives when adding T110 ii with PERC H200 and SBS 2011 or Server 2008 R2-

  Bought the server next in November 2011

  PowerEdge T110 II

  ManufDate: 24/10/2011 market: 06/11/2011
  RAM: 16 GB (4 x 4) 1333 mhz UDIMM DualRanked
  Processor: Xeon E3-1270 3.4 Ghz, 8 M cache, Turbo, Quad Core/8 t (80W)
  RAID: Map Perc H200
  Drive: 2 x 600GB 15K RPM SCSI 6Gbps 3 .5in - RAID 1 Mirror SA
  SBS 2011 standard x 64 (works on Win 2008R2)

  SBS 2011 installed without a problem and the server works perfectly since December 2011.  Backups occurring twice per day to a USB attached hard drive external 1.5 to and OS patches applied on a monthly basis without problem.

  Company need more storage so it wanted to add 2 drives more (same spec as to purchase). I thought to try to turn the RAID 1 pair in RAID 10 set in order to keep the simple logical configuration (a single large logical volume which now seems to be 1.2 TB in size instead of 600 GB) - could get but not really someone to describe if it could be done for non-destructive way that requires not the complete system installation/restoration - so opted for just add the 2 new drives as a RAID extra 1 pair in order to not reach a stable, boot, partition operating system running on the current RAID 1 pair.

  Contracted for the Dell technician to come out to install 2 new readers, be clear that the service was not complete until I had an extra pair of RAID 1, appearing as a usable operating system.

  Technician arrived, installed readers, set the new RAID pair in the H200 configuration utility, rebooted the system and when the BONES began to load had a blue screen BSOD. Technician then disconnected drives newly associated (the level of the cables) to see if the system would boot - BSOD again on restart (both of now get us this "pleated" feel if you know what I mean). Then went into the raid configuration utility, removed the new raid 1 volume (which, by the way, is appeared above the one existing in the list - which is not very intuitive that one that has been added is Volume 1 and the existing old is Volume 2 in the utility). After the triple-checking that we had the right volume (it showed that 8% initialized over the other which was complete, as well as the corresponding drive port numbers), we have REMOVED the new volume (at this point I don't remember if we had replaced the cables for the readers to perform this action).

  At startup the system rebooted normally - we were all so relieved, don't talk over retries at the moment.

  Talk to Dell there seems to be a problem with the PERC H200 firmware or drivers. Has not affected the config initial of a single pair of RAID 1, however caused problems when you attempt to add another pair. Escalation of Dell support said that has happened several times with Windows 2008 (which comes from the SBS 2011) systems. They recommended that the firmware update and the PERC H200 card drivers.

  I turned to the technician and asked when we could plan the updates of the firmware and driver and told him that they wouldn't do that (not sure that I blame the poor guy, he was sweating bullets after the BSOD 2nd).  I explained that we have contracted for installation services which included ensuring that the pair of extra disk appeared also usable for the operating system and he said that I needed to talk to Dell that.

  You wanted to post information on issues with PERC H200 BSOD when adding disks on Win2008 (or SBS 2011).

  Waiting for response from Dell as to who will come on-site to complete the installation.

  Any info about the question to know if the update of the firmware/driver will solve the problem or if I can do with reliability a disk 2 RAID 1 for a 4 disk RAID 10 conversion without having to reinstall/restore system would be appreciated.

  There is NO migration route TO or FROM a nested RAID levels (10, 50, 60) on one of the PERC H series, so it goes from 1 to 10 of RAID is not an option (without backup/replace/create/restore).

  Firmware release notes do not indicate that a large part is added (although the "bugs" may be enough):

  -Addition of Support for > 2.2 to SAS hard drives

  -Small bug fixes

  I have not seen/heard talk of this problem (I don't have a H200), but it is possible that an update of the firmware can change the way it handles the new disks, newly configured RAID arrays, or even how it presents to the OS.

  Do you know if the technician checked to see if the original VD was marked as boot VD?

• PowerEdge T110 II/PERC H200 drive Expansion Question

  We have a server PowerEdge T110-11 with two 600 GB 15K SCSI disks in a RAID 1 configuration via a PERC H200 controller.  This server is used in a production environment.  We want to add an extra internal drive on the server, but the readers (or reader) not be used for archival purposes.  Check-in will be only done periodically at defined intervals.  The plan of production a need for speed and redundancy of the RAID/SCSI setting.  The drive to check-in will not.  I don't know what is supported by the PERC H200 beyond two units SCSI that we have.  How would you recommend that we do that?  Should we buy two SATA drives and use them in a RAID 1 configuration as we have for SCSI drives?  All readers are saved on a Dell RD1000 disk cartridge system, in a way.  I don't know if we need RAID for this disk to archive, because it will be backed up regularly.  Others grow here to use an external USB drive for archiving, due to their very low cost.

  Thanks for your suggestions, you can offer.

  Hello.

  Support-T110 II up to 6 hard drives. It wouldn't hurt to implement these drives in RAID 1 or RAID 5 (for more than 2 disks) configuration just in case of failure before the archive is saved. If your archive is not so important, you can set the drives in RAID 0.

• PowerEdge T110II - Dell Perc H200

  Hi all

  Is there a chance to use at the same time SAS and SATA HDD on the Dell Perc H200 controller installed in the PowerEdge T110II? Currently I 3xSATA HARD drive and I thought to add additional SAS HDD, so is it possible that controller to be taken in charge this kind of configuration.

  Thanks in advance.

  Martino

  Should work.

• PERC H200 on SBS2011 RAID configuration

  Hello

  Is someone can you please tell me if there is a management tool of Windows OS database for Perc H200 Dell RAID controller? I spent hours searching the web and the Dell Web site looking for an other than the utility based BIOS configuration utility (which sucks). I want to be able to check the status of my RAID1 mirror without having to stop the server. Seems reasonable. I was always able to do on the HP kit.

  There are many mentions of Dell OpenManage, but when I downloaded and installed it tells me that it cannot be installed on a domain controller. Obviously nothing I can do about it on an SBS system.

  Is there another utility of Windows, I can use?

  This information must be so easy to find, but Dell support site is poorly organized, so I hope someone out there can help you.

  Thank you very much

  Paul

  Not really hard to find... you just know what to look for.

  OpenManage Server Administrator:

  ftp.dell.com/.../OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WIN-7.2.0-6945.exe

  Download and run to extract, choose custom and ensure that storage management is installed.  Add yourservernameoripaddress:1311 to the Intranet Zone of IE.

  The supported version may depend on the system that you are using this, but this latest version should work on most, if not all, who can have an installed H200.

• PowerEdge T310 - PERC H200 RAID1

  Hi all

  Bit of a newbie when it comes to RAID configurations in servers and wanted to ask a question.
  We have a server with a raid Perc H200 controller and 2 x 250 GB SATA HDD, which has the OS and 2 x 500 GB SATA HDD data/file sharing, both configured in Raid 1
  to provide redundancy. My question is, we want to replace drive HARD 2 x 500 GB with 2x2TB readers.
  I'll be able to replace the first 500 GB drive with the largest one, reconstruction can replace the second disc. The new 2 TB HARD drive will always appear as a 500 GB and if so, what can do to increase capacity.

  Thank you

  Charles

  If you replace each disc and wait that he rebuild, your table will always be 500 GB, and there is no way to use the extra space.  You will need to backup your 500 GB RAID 1, remove the drives, insert larger disks, configure RAID 1, restore the data.

• What does 128 average SSD? It is upgrade-able? In what model year would be a MacBook be more or less if it's still uses the SSD?

  Please explain

  What does 128 average SSD?

  It is upgrade-able storage and at what cost to 500 GB?

  In what model year would be a MacBook be more or less if it's still uses the SSD?

  128 is the size of the available memory and SSD is the type.

• Portégé R700-15 q-Use the SSD as 2nd drive

  Hello

  I would like to install a small SSD as a second drive in my r700-15 q, in order to experience the renaissance SSD.

  I see that others have done that using a shopping cart that is installed in the optical drive Bay.

  My laptop is not equipped with an optical drive, or a Bay for an optical drive. Only, it came with a traditional hard drive 7200 RPM. Here is the http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/portege-r700-15q/ complete spec

  Is there anyway to install a second drive in my laptop (r700-15 (q)?

  In the worst cases, is there enough connectors and isolating a space to accommodate a small SSD inside with tape!

  Thank you!

  > Is anyway to install a second drive in my laptop (r700-15 (q)?
  N °
  If you want to use an SSD, you should replace the internal HARD disc

• Satellite T130 - can I use a SSD?

  Is it posible to use SSDdisk in the Toshiba Satellite T130-K?

  Hello

  Theoretically, it should be possible to use an SSD in your laptop. I put t not see why it should not work.

  I mean SSD also have interface SATA as normal hard drives, but only the technology is different. So you can try it and then post your result here. I am interested in. :)

• Satellite U840W-C9S - Windows 8 installation and effective use of SSD

  I am trying to install Windows 8 on my Toshiba Satellite U840W C9S.

  It has two disks: * HDD (500 GB) * and * SSD (32 GB) *. Originally, my computer has Windows 7 HP, and, as I understand it, SSD has acted as a cache, so that Windows has been installed on the HARD drive.

  I installed Windows 8 at the disk and started looking for information on the ssd as cache usage.
  But it turns out that you must set the SATA RAID mode in BIOS, but I don't have the option here.

  This is why when I install technology Intel Rapid Storage (which is used to configure the SSD as cache) there is no option to use the SSD as cache.

  It is clear that my computer used to treat the SSD somehow. The question is, how can I use SSD + effective + (not only as another hard drive, but as cache, for example)?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  > It turns out that you must set the SATA RAID mode in BIOS, but I don't have the option here.

  This option isn't available in the BIOS because the RAID is still active / active.

  To use the QuickStart, you must follow these steps:
  -Firstly the Intel IRST utility must be installed
  -Now go to the disk (win key + X-> disk management) management and format the SSD drive. In this case the SSD will be visible in the Explorer (windows Explorer)
  -Now right click on the SSD drive, choose Properties and here you should find a tab (don t know exactly how its called) that contains the option for the quick start

  I hope that this will be functions, otherwise there is no other way to effectively use the SSD drive

• Pavilion dm4-3090se: how to use the SSD after restoration of the system of Windows backup disks?

  Hello

  After a lot of work, I finally could restore my OS using Windows backup disks that I created a few years back. (The OS has been corrupted when the power has been accidentally deleted from the system and the battery was dead)

  Restoring backup widows put everything on 444 GB C drive.  Nothing I put on the SSD drive d:-20 GB and there is nothing in the tools of HP E: drive - 4 GB

  How can I make use of the SSD drive to help speed up the system?  I see the system starts and runs more slowly now.  I'm ready to blow the current operating system and re-run the Windows backup utility.  But I need to know how to use the SSD during the restoration.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thank you

  Bob

  Hey @llebrez,
  
  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support! This is a great place to find solutions and help our community!

  I understand that you have some information about using the SSD in your HP Pavilion dm4 Beats Edition Entertainment Notebook. I'd be happy to help you with that.

  The SSD in your laptop is used for a technology called Intel Smart Response. Intel Smart Response uses the SSD as a type of Cache smart to help load the items faster. The reason why that is not used currently is because the restoration of the system is not designed to use the SSD for intelligent caching and is not able to establish that on its own.

  If you want to configure Intelligent caching on your laptop, you can follow this guide provided by overclock.net: how: implement the Intel Smart Response Technology (SSD caching)

  I hope this helps. If you have more questions that I'm able to answer for you, please do not hesitate to ask.

  Please hold me.

  By pressing the Thumbs Up button below, you can always say thank you!
  
  See you soon.

• M500 Crucial would work as primary disk in my W520 or am I forced to use Lenovo SSD?

  Just wondering if the

  Crucial M500 240GB SATA 2.5 inch 7mm internal Solid State Drive CT240M500SSD1

  my Thinkpad W520 work? I want to spend the current HD 500 GB Ultra Bay and use the SSD as drive.

  I searched and read many horror stories how anything but Lenovo SSD will not work or there are problems.

  I also searched and read where the M500 Cruical works indeed.

  Seems to be more complaints than not.

  So what, what to do? All advice is appreciated.

  I want to order a SSD by Sunday evening.

  Good afternoon and welcome to the community.

  You shouldn't have any problems setting up computer you the way you describe. My X 220 (generation of your W) is configured with an mSATA SSD Crucial m4 under the keyboard and a Samsung SSD of 840Pro in the main Bay. I had zero problems. A moderator colleague runs a T420 has also equipped the mSATA SSD Crucial m4, but kept the flat disc in the main Bay, I think.

  See you soon.

• 2560p: EliteBook 2560p use mSATA SSD in location WWAN

  Hello.
  I bought a Lite-on S900 mSATA SSD 64 GB for my 2560p and tried to place it in the WWAN slot, but it is recognized as the WAN card, not SSD. I found this topic: http://h30478.www3.hp.com/t5/Ordinateurs-portables-Syst%C3%A8mes-d-exploitation-D%C3%A9marrage-et/In... but the update of the BIOS does not allow me to use my SSD. Any way to make it work?

  @Marvetick

  Sorry, but this laptop does not have the ability to install an mSATA.

  Your manual here.

  http://h20628.www2.HP.com/km-ext/kmcsdirect/emr_na-c03011618-1.PDF

  REO

• Order a new X 220 (you want to use mSata SSD)

  I'll order a X 220 and I was wondering if the view Type options (antenna) or the WiFi options integrated importance in my ability to add an mSata card?

  I want the i7 processor, premium best screen Wifi which will allow me to use a card mSata.

  Thank you

  No, the only thing that would limit you to use mSATA SSD if you order a card WWAN (3 G internet cell), because it uses the same location.

• R210 with PERC H200 will increase the possibilities for HD

  I have a PE R210 w/PERC H200.  The RAID configuration is RAID 1 2 HD.  I was looking at options to increase the storage capacity.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that it is not possible to extend the VFD by improving each hd one at a time to rebuild the RAID VD, then its extension to occupy unused space in HD.  There is no other HD slots available on the R210, along with options to do I have if I want to keep the current VD but increase the storage space on the server?

  Backup, replace the disks with the biggest, configure RAID, restore from a backup.