Re: Mission Critical procedural advice requested, please.

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From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_d.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:51:26 +1100

I believe that SG thought you had a RAID 1 ( mirror )
and not a RAID 5 Stripe Set. 

-- 
Henry Craven
(SBS-MVP) Melbourne
"Steve Stewart" <steve@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:rra360hvb9n7ja7k8qpm4o71rovgu766q0@4ax.com...
>
>
> A little confused here....
>
> I have a RAID 5 array with 4 drives, and one drive is dead. It is
> drive #2 in a 4 series. If I put a new drive in to occupy the #2
> spot(while hot) and let it rebuild and then remove it (while hot), it
> sounds like you are saying that the newly introduced drive will
> contain a master copy of my drive? Is that the benefit you are
> explaining to me? My old #2 drive is already completely out of the
> system. Dell had me pull it out, which I think was a bad idea.
>
> Thanks!

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