I'm using three HP Z420 workstations in my office. We run a small engineering company and workstations are primarily used for CAD.
Two are used as working computers and third is used as data server. We decided that it is enough for us to use regular workstation as a data server. It works great for some time now. This Z420 had hardware RAID 1 (two WD red 1 TB HDDs) set before OS instalation and everything is working great.
My question goes to our two working Z420 workstations. We have two SSDs in both of them (one pair has capacitiy of 238 GB and the other 447 GB). We are running OS and everything on both from one SSD and the other is empty on both computers. I've attached disks specifications from both workstations. One pair is from the same manufacturer and the other is from different manufacturers.
Is it possible to set up hardware RAID 1 configuration after the OS was installed so everything will remain intact? What is the proper procedure? Or I should leave it alone? Do I need exactly same SSD pairs or not?
The other question goes to mail reporting setup in Intel RST software. I want to set it up on our server workstation and it looks like I need my own smtp host on my server or it can't be done. Is there any other possibility to get RAID 1 status on my personal e-mail? The computer I use as a server doesn't have a display and I don't connect remotely every day and this would be great for RAID 1 status checking.
Thanks for answers.
