Vicious Sadic Posted Wednesday at 11:22 PM Posted Wednesday at 11:22 PM I have a Dell PowerEdge r730xd the OS starts but will not detect my drives. 4 - 1TB WD Blue HDDs What am I doing wrong. Ive initilized them and put on a base partition and nothing else. Ive tried NTFS and exFAT. Neither work. Quote
ubergeek Posted Wednesday at 11:27 PM Posted Wednesday at 11:27 PM What HBA / Raid / Perc card 8s in the server Quote
PsychoWards Posted Thursday at 12:15 AM Posted Thursday at 12:15 AM Can you please also post more details on your HDDs? Those might be SMR drives which will likely cause a lot of (performance) issues in the future. Quote
DeathBySaiyan Posted Friday at 01:35 AM Posted Friday at 01:35 AM sorry for the name change. Made new account because i forgot the password to this one. but found it. The drives are WD10spcx-24hwst0 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCM91WQ?smid=A2LNMCKTCZIL8P&psc=1 I got the system on ebay and it had little info about just a link to this page - https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/servers/technical-support/poweredge-r760-spec-sheet.pdf Quote
Dylan Posted 19 hours ago Posted 19 hours ago On 12/25/2025 at 8:35 PM, DeathBySaiyan said: sorry for the name change. Made new account because i forgot the password to this one. but found it. The drives are WD10spcx-24hwst0 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCM91WQ?smid=A2LNMCKTCZIL8P&psc=1 I got the system on ebay and it had little info about just a link to this page - https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/servers/technical-support/poweredge-r760-spec-sheet.pdf If the OS doesn't detect the drives, how did you format and partition the drives? Quote
DeathBySaiyan Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 16 hours ago, Dylan said: If the OS doesn't detect the drives, how did you format and partition the drives? I did multiple ways First I put the drive straight out the package unformatted and no detection. Then I formatted them MBR NTFS, Then MBR exFAT, then GPT exFAT, then GPT NTFS...All with the same result. RAID controller in the system says its PERC H730P Mini While writing this I was troubleshooting and realized I needed GPT initialized - unallocated drives then needed to go thru the onboard system to setup the raid system. As soon as i did that and reinstalled the OS everything worked. Hopefully I can just add drives in the future without all the hassle. Thatnks for the replies 😊 Quote
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