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Yes, you can add the drive as additional drive in this system. Based on the system specs:<br />
<a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/uk/eserver/xseries/hardware/tower/x206m/specs.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/uk/eserver/xseries/hardware/tower/x206m/specs.html</a>&nbsp;
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Yes, you can add the drive as additional drive in this system. Based on the system specs:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/uk/eserver/xseries/hardware/tower/x206m/specs.html [http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/uk/eserver/xseries/hardware/tower/x206m/specs.html] 

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I just thought becuse the BIOS is configured for SATA Raid it may in some way conflict with the current raid when it is installed. <br />
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This is a productioin environment and I do not want it to die on me :-(
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I just thought becuse the BIOS is configured for SATA Raid it may in some way conflict with the current raid when it is installed.

This is a productioin environment and I do not want it to die on me :-(

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Then, use usb external drive for backup purpose though. 
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Then, use usb external drive for backup purpose though.

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to slow really and they already have one so I really want to try use this first.. Just going to have to give it a go I suppose
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to slow really and they already have one so I really want to try use this first.. Just going to have to give it a go I suppose

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Added the SATA drive no problems
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I have a customer with a IBM X206m running two 160Gb SATA in RAID 1 configuration. I want to add another 500GB SATA drive to the server as a sort of backup drive for extra data. They are a media company have alot of large files to store. Is this feasable without breaking the curent Raid Array. I just want the 500Gb drive to show up as an additional drive and to be no part of the current raid.
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I have a customer with a IBM X206m running two 160Gb SATA in RAID 1 configuration. I want to add another 500GB SATA drive to the server as a sort of backup drive for extra data. They are a media company have alot of large files to store. Is this feasable without breaking the curent Raid Array. I just want the 500Gb drive to show up as an additional drive and to be no part of the current raid.

Adding Extra Drive to a SATA RAID 1 configuration

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.