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I have a proxmox server setup with a company i have recently taken over. I have looked at the server which hardware wise has 2 x 400gb SSD drives in raid 1 and 2 x 6tb spinning drives which i think are also in raid 1 but looking at this could this be 1 x 12tb drive in the server. i haven't had change to shut it down yet to check but wanted to see if I could check the hard drive specs via Proxmox

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Looking at the image above its showing the 1 tb drive only? how can i check what drives are in the machine with out going onsite and shutting it down.

Thanks!

ps. just did an pvdisplay and it says this

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does that mean i just have 1 12tb drive in it?
 
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It looks like a RAID 0 instead of a RAID 1. And your SSDs are not configured/shown in the RAID controller settings.
Check that with
Code: 
smartctl -a /dev/sda -d megaraid,X
and replace X with the number of your HDDs/SDDs (start with 0).
 
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does that mean i just have 1 12tb drive in it?
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No.

Actually you can not know at all. Run @JensF command to get a clue.

That 12 TB drive is a virtual(!) drive, created by the PERC...
 
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The easiest way to get all those info is to login the iDRAC of the Server.
Edit: Assuming it is a Dell server because of the RAID controller.
 
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JensF said:
The easiest was to get all those info is to login the iDRAC of the Server.
Edit: Assuming it is a Dell server because of the RAID controller.
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yeah its a old dell u1 420 i think. i will go on site thursday as i dont think the idrac is connected.
 
4x 4TB HDDs and 12 TB space in total sounds like a RAID 5. But could also be a RAID 0 with a hot spare (makes no sense I know, but you never know...).
No 6TB HDDs and no SSDs. And no room for more than 4 LFF drives.
 
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