adding additional Hard Drives to PERC 3/di controller

[austinringding]

I've got a Dell Poweredge 2500 which can house 6 total hard drives. It's got a PERC 3/di internal embedded RAID controller which currently has 3-36gb SCSI drives configured in a single RAID-5 container.

I would like to add some additional HDDs to the system, and read on Dell's support site that the PERC 3/di controller can handle 73gb capacity drives.

My question is this:

Can I add 3 73gb drives in the 3 empty drive bays and create a new RAID-5 container without affecting the original container?

I was always under the impression that all the drives connected to the controller had to be identical. Is that the case or not?

 

[maultier]

Drives do not have to be identical.
You can create another raid 5 with your three empty slots.