Good day all!
Inherited some real trouble in the server room.
basics:
Power Edge R410 (circa 2012)
Currently running WinSmallBiz Server 2011 Std
4 - 500GB hard drives in RAID10 array.
PERC 3 (hardware card ...i think)
challenge:
1)Never worked with raid10.
2) Two (2) of the 4 drives have failed, and on more is degrading.
need to fix asap....
3) Server went down a few weeks ago... took 2 hours and 3 dozen reboots to get it back up.... taking server offline / shutdown.. probably not good option at this point...
have tried the following already....
Thinking, as with a few other raid type arrays, that the size may not matter of the HD... I installed a 1TB HD(SAS), into one of the dead spots. Spun up, recognized the drive. DID NOT recognize as RAID avail/compliant. (Again this drive IS an Enterprise type SAS, and stated as raid comp.) rebuild would not start auto, went through Dell OM to try it that way... no luck. only thing server would let me do is assign a drive letter and use it for back up. so used windows/OM back up configure, and got a good complete back up. Had another brand new hdd avail. so spun down the 1tb and installed a 2tb. same demise here... this thing is like a ticking time bomb.... looking for suggestions quick. do i try a 500GB drive to hopefully rebuild on its own.... or do i build a small server on the side connect the back-up drive restore from the back up and run that while taking down the old server to replace drives etc....? please help.. any ideas here would be great. thanks
j