juhendri

Sorry, I did not realize it was another thread until I just clicked on it. I have 8 internal drives on a back plane that goes to the perc card. Then I have 4 external drives connected via SATA cables through the back of the server into 2 different cards similar to the one below.

I have 2 of those hooked up with stat cables coming out of the back of the server. lol That is my jank set up.

Understood. I was under the impression it does work better with the LSi models compared to dell. I plan to build a 2 part in the future. a server case with PC set up inside and parity on local disks and then a jbod for storage. Is that a bad plan?

I turned a few things ( sabnzbd, sonarr, radarr ) on temporarily to see if I could get the parity to finally finish. No luck. I have been doing some reading on the h700 perc card. I see I could update the firmware. The only problem is I don't have a working OS to use for the installer/upgrade of the firmware. Also, If I do the firmware upgrade where does it get installed? My set up is super simple. I really don't even need the cache drive so I am planning on doing something different with that, just don't know yet. datawhore-diagnostics-20230914-0826.zip

I am still stuck today. The parity sync has not finished.

Not format. I meant to say convert to a virtual drive with raid 0. Either way the raid card would not convert it nor see its full size.

The raid controller only showed 1.1gb in size when I tried to format the 10tb SAS drive. Nothing is writing to the disks. Both parity drives are 4tb and then the 6 that follow them. Then I have 5 other disks hooked up in ways you all would gasp at. All due to lack of money.

I forgot to mention that it is syncing 2 drives at the same time. A parity drive and a data drive.

datawhore-diagnostics-20230912-1936.zip

I attempted to replace a parity drive with a new 10tb SAS drive. Found out the hard way that the crappy perc h700 raid card in my shitty dell 500 series server does not see but 1.1gb. I am afraid I will loose data if I upgrade the firmware. The original Parity sync was only supposed to be 18 hours. It has been like this all day. I have searched high and low to find an answer. Any advice would be awesome.