#HOW TO FORMAT MY HARD DRIVE ON DELL POWEREDGE 2950 SERIES# SAS and SATA Hard Drives are compatible up to 4.5TB in 8 slots.The motherboard supports up to 32 GB of PC2-5300 ECC FBDIMM memory in 8 slots. The PowerEdge 2950 ships with a 750W redundant power supply unitĭell PowerEdge 2950 dimensions and rack compatibility.The PowerEdge 2950 chassis is 2 rack units in height, has a depth of 28 inches and will fit in standard EIA 19 inch racks. Rails allow for the most efficient use of space when mounting servers. RackSolutions specifically designed slide rail kits to fit the shoulder screws of the PowerEdge 2950. It works with both 2 post and 4 post racks and can be installed in a matter of seconds. Universal rails that have a height of 2U and support up to 29 inches of depth will be compatible with the PE 2950. #HOW TO FORMAT MY HARD DRIVE ON DELL POWEREDGE 2950 SERIES#.Once the volume is formatted, reenable trim/unmap so the host can take advantage of deleted space reclamation for NTFS volumes.įor more background information about trim/unmap with PowerStore, see the document Dell PowerStore: Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices. Use the fsutil command to query or change the state of trim/unmap A DisableDeleteNotify value of 1 means that trim/unmap is disabled, and long format wait times are avoided when performing a quick format.Ĭhanging the state of DisableDeleteNotify does not require a host reboot to take effect.įigure 13. This setting is disabled using the fsutil command from a command prompt with administrator privileges.įigure 7 shows the commands to query the state and to disable trim/unmap for NTFS and ReFS volumes on a host. To avoid a long format wait time when mapping and formatting a large volume, temporarily disable trim/unmap. This case applies to volumes formatted as NTFS or ReFS. The larger the volume is, the longer the format wait time is, which is a common situation with external storage. With trim/unmap enabled (default setting in Windows Server), significant wait time occurs when formatting a PowerStore volume that is more than 1 TB.
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