Mounting compatible HDD to WD Sentinel DX4000

[DTMtech]

This is pretty known issue which also affected some of my DX4000.

I would suggest first to do the following on the HD to be installed on another machine:

diskpart clean
convert the drives into GPT drives without formatting

Then I would suggest to check the following two links:

Helpful Information for WD Sentinel DX4000 Users installing New Hard Disk

Hi Teak, Thanks for sharing this information. This seems exactly the same issue I had when trying to expand my DX4000 from 2 to 3 drives. It just did not work, clearly for a fault in the original WD install. In our case I managed to solve the problem with Intel RST driver even if this led to few cons. I find amazing to see how users left alone by WD managed to find different solutions to these issues. I wonder whether it might be possible, by using RAIDCFG64, to have a more efficient RAID con…

Expanding DX4000. Complete recovery is the only possibility?

After a very difficult search (they are not even available on the WD store) I found compatible hard drives to expand a 4 Gb DX4000 (2 Gb with RAID1) to 8 Gb (6 Gb with RAID5) I already discovered that with DX4000 you have no control whatsoever on the RAID configuration, but at least I hoped that the RAID1 to RAID5 rebuild would have been done automatically. This is also what the administration manual says. Please note the disks are correctly recognized by dashboard monitor as empty disks, all t…

To cut the story short with my last DX4000 install processes I managed to solve the issue just by reinstalling the raid software from the control panel. At the reboot the Intel tab appeared in the dashboard and you could yourself start the raid extension process.