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I think i have this figured out. The drac pretty much considers all batteries good if they have some voltage retention regardless if they are strong enough to operate. The Perc 5/i card performs an endurance test on the battery and will switch to write through apon the batteries not being...

After hours of initialization i have found that the only way the PERC 5/i will go to write back is to force with no BBU unit. I am now confused becasue the DRAC shows batteries are good for the storage controller, unless it is wrong? I am going to purchase a new battery dell OEM from Ebay and...

just ran crystal disk mark 2.2 on the 4 raid 5 drives and got a write speed above 121. i will now install 4 of the hp drives and see if i have the same issue...

Firmware is up to date on all 3 servers on everything including the perc 5/i. I am baffled.

I have 2 matched pairs pulled from my working servers for upgrades. tested and cleaned. looking for $20 per set or willing to traid for help getting firmware for WD1002FBYS hard drive. jstrelchuk@prodiode.com

i have broken the VD, removed the HP drives from the raid and started to setup a new raid 5. Initalization is running now. If this works then i will try the HP drives by themseves. FYI. 30 TB of storage total..

I have 3 identical Dell Power Edge servers with with all the same specs. Each units uses a PERC 5/i controller to run 10 - 1TB WD1002FBYS drives. All drives are in RAID 5 and initialized. My DRAC 5 cards shows that all raid batteries are good. On the first 2 servers the read write is great...