For this, there are various adapters and expanders, which are usually not expensive. Even in the process of connecting drives, a question may arise with an insufficient number of SATA ports and power connectors.
#HP SMART ARRAY CONTROLLER REFERENCE GUIDE PC#
To do this, you need to connect all the media that were included in the array directly to the PC motherboard, boot the OS and run the program.īefore starting the recovery process, you must take care of having a drive with a size equal to or greater than the amount of information being recovered. The program will subtract all data available on the disks about the controller and will be able to rebuild the destroyed RAID.
If it was not possible to replace the controller, or it needs to be ordered, and the data is needed already yesterday, then you should use a specialized utility – Hetman RAID Recovery. If the controller stops working, then without replacing it, just like that, it will not be possible to access the stored information. The rebuild process can be monitored in the HPE Smart Storage Administrator. You can set the media as spare in the BIOS, in the Create Logical Drive section. After that, the controller will automatically detect the “broken disk” and start “rebuild” with the new media.
If there is an additional slot for connection, you can insert new media without replacement and designate it as spare.
#HP SMART ARRAY CONTROLLER REFERENCE GUIDE SERIAL#
To determine which drive is not working, in the utility, expand the tab with storage devices, by the serial number, see which of the drives is not in the list. To replace a broken media, you just need to replace it with the same new working drive, after which the “rebuild” should start automatically. The array has been created, it remains to mark it up in disk management. Next, click on Create logical Drive, select the type, number of groups, block size, if necessary, set a specific size, activate caching, and then Save to confirm. On the Configuration tab, select your controller, on the right side of the window, click Create Array.Ĭheck the media that your future RAID will consist of and click Ok. In order to assemble an array from a loaded operating system, use the HP Array Configuration Utility or HPE Smart Storage Administrator, which can be downloaded from the official website of the controller manufacturer. Then you just need to go into disk management and mark it by assigning a letter to it and selecting the file system.Ĭollecting an Array Using the HP Array Configuration Utility To view information about the array, open View logical Drive, if everything is correct, press the Esc key to exit the settings menu and further boot. To confirm the configuration write press F8 and Enter to continue. After setting all the settings, press Enter, after which information, size, type and so on will be displayed. Press the Tab key to go to the next section of the settings, set the checkbox opposite the desired type, choose from how many groups it will consist of, in the case of two, since I have only 6 disks.
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