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October 16th, 2025 19:32
Kingston DC600M SSD drives not detected by the Dell PowerEdge R450 PERC S150 RAID controller
Hi, we bought Kingston DC600M SSD drives for use with our Dell PowerEdge R450 server with PERC S150 RAID controller. The SSD drives are detected through the IDRAC web interface as non-RAID state but there is not action to change it to RAID-capable disk from the GUI. The RAID controller access during boot doesn't detect the physical disks and reports there are no physical disks to display. The indicator lights on all disks show a steady green light and the IDRAC GUI also shows the status of the drives as Healthy. What should I do the change the status of these drives from non-RAID to RAID? Thank you.
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DELL-Joey C
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October 17th, 2025 02:10
Hi,
The drives are detected by the PERC HBA355i which is a non-RAID controller card. To be able to do RAID, you will need to replace the HBA355i with H355 which is RAID capable. Or recable the server to the mainboard so you can use PERC S150.
Ref:
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r450/per450_ism_pub/cable-routing?guid=guid-83cac119-c5ff-44bd-a5a6-54dbf0fba41c&lang=en-us
https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/product_docs/en/dell-emc-poweredge-r450-technical-guide.pdf
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October 17th, 2025 15:03
The HBA355i is used for HCI setups like VMware vSAN or ZFS when the installed OS needs full control over every single device instead just seeing a virtual Volume behind a full blown RAID card.
The HBA355e is the same but for external devices like Tape or RAID Arrays.
The H355i is the first entry level card without Cache or Battery.
The Perc H9xx or H7xx are the real Raid controllers with Cache and Battery.
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