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- I bought a DELL Poweredge T110 which comes with Perc S100 Raid controller (it seems to be made by Broadcom). And I thus configured a Raid 1 (2 identical hard drives). Then I tried to use the nLite to integrate the driver (for xp 32 bit).
It has a 3-disk RAID 5 configuration of 500GB drives.
The drives appear as a 1TB drive (or nearly).
I didn't set this up and have rare opportunities to see these things.
I've dealt with a RAID 1 disk failure in the past and it was a simple matter of replacing the failed HD.
Recently, the system started running very very slowly. It's virtually unusable.
![Perc S100 Raid Controller Driver Perc S100 Raid Controller Driver](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lPooy.jpg)
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In looking at the RAID configuration, I see this:The RAID 5 is shown as 'DEGRADED'.
There are the 3 drives: 0,1,2
Drive 0 is shown as part of the RAID array
Drive 1 is shown as READY
Drive 2 is shown as part of the RAID array.
From this, I conclude that Drive 1 is at least out of sync OR is bad to one degree or another.
In order to make progress, I added:
Drive 3, a 1TB drive
And physically disconnected:
Drive 1 (at least temporarily)
The system still boots into Windows Server but now Drive 3 is shown as 'READY' and, of course, Drive 1 isn't listed.
It appears that this did no good.
The RAID 5 is still shown as 'DEGRADED'.
There are the 3 drives: 0,2,3
Drive 0 is shown as part of the RAID array
Drive 2 is shown as part of the RAID array.
Drive 3 is shown as READY.
In reading about this, there are mentions of OMSA fixing the problem when a new HD is introduced.
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I have tried to install OMSA but there's been no success in doing that.I believe I found the correct version:
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=28KFC
I wonder if the Foundation edition is compatible?
I wonder if there isn't any other way to introduce a new hard drive into this RAID 5 array?
![Perc s100 raid controller driver download Perc s100 raid controller driver download](https://cdn.etb-tech.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1200x800/40d74a4c32e0a5225d66bf3cfc04a000/p/e/perc_h830_lp_nr5pc_dsc3786.jpg)
I can't afford to lose the operational hard drive so drastic measures aren't acceptable.
Still, I wonder if I can clone the 'virtual'? drive and go to a single (1TB) hard drive on this system or maybe RAID 1?
I'll keep looking for solutions but figure someone on EE would have some quick insights and suggestions.