I would like to install a higher spec SATA drive on my Dell Precision 670 in RAID 1. It seems that Dell states that you can only install up to 2 TB in SATA II? I have an embedded SCSI / SATA Host (Intel) with connections to SATA only. Can I install a SATA III PCi card and still use the embedded for my SCSI? Thank you.
There is a 2TB limit with MBR (Master Boot Record), but even a larger drive can be partitioned. So a single 4TB (biggest on the market) drive will look like several drives.
External drives that are bigger than 4TB are really several physical drives combined by an array.
RAID 1 requires optional SCSI drives, cables, and even software?
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ws670/en/ug_en/before.htm
Add on SATA 3 cards to PCI are not a good idea if you are looking for speed. They just bottlenecks the throughput.
SOURCE: Dell precision 670
Ok go to bios setup and then "load bios default" and press "F10" to save and exit. i will tell you in case this not work just tell me.
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So you want to put an SCSI hard drive that is connected to a motherboard into RAID with a SATA3 drive connected on an add-in card?
Thank you for your response. The SCSI is working fine, one of my SATA RAID 0 drives failed. I have been trying to recover these, but not managed to get the data off thus far. It is these SATA drives I want to replace, as the one is clicking when starting up and the PC only sees it as a HAWK drive of 7 gb, whilst it is a WD 250 Gb. Dell's papers are out of date and only states that you can install up to 500 gb, of which I beg to differ. I think it is better not to install SATA III, but only stick with SATA II. Hopefully 2 TB SATA II drives will be suitable and I will be able to recover the data, as the data I recovered thus far, is only 50 % of the data / image, as the other 50% is probably on the other crashed drive.
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