Before putting the 6 year old RAID controller into production I had to update the firmware. I downloaded the driver, update tool and firmware. Everything sorted and organized for future upgrades. Updating through CLI is fun, most days it's done through an executable from Dell.
I finally convinced the server to take 2 x 2 GB of ram.
Organized in a spreadsheet how I will backup the data from the 3 x 1TB drives onto spare 750 and 2 x 320GB drives while I rebuild the array.
I think by the time I need to expand storage I will be ready for a new server.
End goal:
OS drive: RAID 1 onboard controller
Data drive: RAID 5 controller card.
HyperV server hosting at least 2 servers: production and test.
Keeping my eye out for a cheap Dell rack mounted server that I can put into a lack rack.
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