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I have a Dell Poweredge 2600 with a 1x6 backplane. &nbsp;We currently have two RAID 1 mirrors each 72GB taking 4 of the 6 disks. &nbsp;The RAID controller is a Perc 4/Di. For a short term storage solution to add additional space I would like to know if we could fill up the remaining 2 disk slots with 146GB drives and create a 3rd mirror? &nbsp;I know this is a very inefficient use of space, however this is only temporary until a we get a new file server which will be properly configured with RAID 5. &nbsp;What I'm getting at here is I want to make sure this server's hardware can support 3 mirrors and making sure that I can in deed use all 6 slots for active drives or is the 6th slot only good for a hot spare??<br />
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Ben
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I have a Dell Poweredge 2600 with a 1x6 backplane.  We currently have two RAID 1 mirrors each 72GB taking 4 of the 6 disks.  The RAID controller is a Perc 4/Di. For a short term storage solution to add additional space I would like to know if we could fill up the remaining 2 disk slots with 146GB drives and create a 3rd mirror?  I know this is a very inefficient use of space, however this is only temporary until a we get a new file server which will be properly configured with RAID 5.  What I'm getting at here is I want to make sure this server's hardware can support 3 mirrors and making sure that I can in deed use all 6 slots for active drives or is the 6th slot only good for a hot spare??

Thanks

Ben

Hard drive/RAID options for my Dell Poweredge 2600

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