tomcoleman Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I have a HP Gen 8 micro server I would like to have the drives in RAID 5 by using either windows server 2008 / 2012. I noticed that the drives dont appear in windows untill you push F5 at boot and add them to the HP array. My question is do i create 4 arrays with each array having its own drive, then in windows RAID 5 these? Or do i put them as one array with 4 drives which it will only allow me todo raid 0 then RAID 5 these in windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuk Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 (edited) Do you have a HP Raid Controller? if so you will have a boot up option. Hardware RAID is create before the OS install. You will see it on boot up...the car listed, with options. Edited November 15, 2013 by samuk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jem101 Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Ideally, you would want to configure the RAID in hardware with a separate controller card, or failing that use the motherboard raid controller. You don't have a RAID card and the motherboard can only do RAID 0 or 1. You were right the first time, create four individual 'arrays' which the OS will see as four separate disks - you can then software raid them from within Windows. Software raid is really not a good idea though, if you can then see if you can't get hold of a controller card, it'll be much more reliable. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcoleman Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 cheers for the replies. I dont have a proper raid 5 card so will have to go with the software for now. I also need to connect my 8 bay DAS which is on a SATA mutiplier card and software RAID the lot together. At the moment im using Windows 2012 R2 and it reboots/BSODs when i go to device manager allot so switching back to WIN2K8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Try a clean install of 2012 R2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcoleman Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Try a clean install of 2012 R2. This was a clean install of 2012 R2 - Seems to be 100% stabl but when you start configuring and going into device manager it reboots im using RDP & logmein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 The GEN8 does have a VGA port, right? Why use RDP? What does the Event Viewer say when this happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Better yet, the Gen8 has iLO4...better than RDP or LogMeIn if you get the Advanced license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Instead of using Windows to RAID5 the drives, consider using one of the drive pooling programs: DrivePool, DriveBender, PoolHD, flexRAID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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