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Need help sorting out an array. Server is performing poorly but I'm not sure how to tell if the drives really are the issue.

I'n not familiar with Proliant servers. I seem to be getting mixed info on drive array on HP Proliant DL380 Gen 5 server. The front panel drives are listing these as 60 GB drives. There are 5 of them. If I go into the system management home page, on the array controller, it lists the physical drives as 466 gb (I assume 500 gb) drives and there are 5 listed in the physical drive listing. I will attach a screen shot of the management console. I'm also attaching a shot from the front of the server and the E200 array that shows no physical drives. Not sure why there are 2 array's in the computer. The first was an P400 array.

One of the drives in the front panel is showing a solid green LED light on. From what I've been able to locate, that indicates the drive has failed and has been taken offline by the controller. Is that right?

If I go to replace the drive, what do I actually use? I see that there are 60 GB hot swap drives that were made for that unit but the management console is giving me a different picture so I'm not sure what to try.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Bill
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Millardjk: Thanks for the input. I think you're right on this. Until I started looking into this, I didn't realize how out of date the server was. I'm pretty sure they'll go with a replacement at this point. They've been suffering for long enough with the performance on this box.

Anyalder: Thanks for your input too. I didn't even think about the cache battery. Since I'm proposing a new box, I doubt I'll even look into it even though that explains a lot of the performance issues too. Between what you've both pointed out, I'm kind of surprised it runs at all!

Thanks!

Bill