Server Maintenance and Upgrades.
The file server has been running for years without issue. It still is. The other day I thought I’d do a disk test on the drives in the raid array. In order to have enough drives in the system I had to add a raid card. These are the cards found in Dell servers that can be modified to turn on IT mode allowing SATA drives. When you get them you modify the firmware in DOS of all things, but it is super simple. And then you buy 1 or 2 cables with 4 SATA ends for the drives. I say 1 or 2 because there are two ports on the card where you can plug in a 4 port SATA cable enabling 8 total. With a 2nd card you…