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Not to be a stickler but the PowerConnect is their Switch Series. I think you meant PowerEdge ;-)<br />
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Anywho... are these 3 drive in any kind of RAID array?<br />

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Not to be a stickler but the PowerConnect is their Switch Series. I think you meant PowerEdge ;-)

Anywho... are these 3 drive in any kind of RAID array?


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As above if it's a Power Edge 2950 server &nbsp;with 3.5&quot; drives, there should be 3 available drive bays, then one should be able to add 3 drives then use either Dells Server Administrator or reboot and configure from ctrl M as either a RAID 5 (min 3 disks) or RAID 1 (2 disks) with a spare or use as JBOD RAID 0. &nbsp;<br />
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See additional Dell info:<br />
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<a href="http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&dl=false&l=en&s=dhs&docid=47CC1217A68B66CFE040A68F5A28505E&doclang=en" rel="ugc">http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&dl=false&l=en&s=dhs&docid=47CC1217A68B66CFE040A68F5A28505E&doclang=en</a>
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As above if it's a Power Edge 2950 server  with 3.5" drives, there should be 3 available drive bays, then one should be able to add 3 drives then use either Dells Server Administrator or reboot and configure from ctrl M as either a RAID 5 (min 3 disks) or RAID 1 (2 disks) with a spare or use as JBOD RAID 0.  

See additional Dell info:

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&dl=false&l=en&s=dhs&docid=47CC1217A68B66CFE040A68F5A28505E&doclang=en [http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&dl=false&l=en&s=dhs&docid=47CC1217A68B66CFE040A68F5A28505E&doclang=en]

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There are 3 drives in total all are 68.24GB. There are 2 partitions C: and E:<br />
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C: is 124GB<br />
E: is 11.9GB<br />
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There are another possible 5 slots, 4 of which have the hot swap drives in them one has a blanking plate
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There are 3 drives in total all are 68.24GB. There are 2 partitions C: and E:

C: is 124GB
E: is 11.9GB

There are another possible 5 slots, 4 of which have the hot swap drives in them one has a blanking plate

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We have a Powerconnect 2800, there are currently 3 HD in the hot swappable drives. If i wanted to increase the storage space by installing new drives in addition to the current ones, what is the process?<br />
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We have a Powerconnect 2800, there are currently 3 HD in the hot swappable drives. If i wanted to increase the storage space by installing new drives in addition to the current ones, what is the process?





Installing a new HD to a Powerconnect 2850

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