Re: Upgrade hard drive or add new server?
From: Gregg Hill (bogus_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 03/22/05
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:43:42 -0800
Allen,
If he adds two 320GB IDE drives on one other channel of the controller and
mirrors them, he ends up with a 320GB logical drive, separate from the 40GB
current logical drive. He is not limited to the 40GB current RAID mirror. He
can leave that alone and just add more drives, if the controller has the
channels he claims it does.
Gregg Hill
"Allen M" <ajmiyake@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Well well that gives you pleanty of options with a quad channel
> controller. But here is the drawback to your way. Adding two more drives
> is only going to give you 80 gig total. Here's is what I would do. I of
> course would leave the mirroed set. Buy three or four new drives and
> configure as RAID5 striped set on a different channel. I would then move
> all my programs, apps and file storage to the new striped set and just
> keep my OS on the mirrored set.
> Or buy 2-16GB drives and 1 or 2 more 40GB drives. I would mirror the
> 2-16GB drives and put only my OS onto that. Then I would take the 3-4 40GB
> drives and move them to a seperate channel and stripe that set. This of
> course is all dependant upon your flexability ith the system to do a new
> rebuild.
>
>
> "SMSUCigarguy" <brian.leas@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>I think it is a four-channel IDE RAID controller. My understanding was
>> that I could just add two more drives and set up the controller to
>> mirror the the new drives without doing anything to the old ones.
>> Certainly let me know if I have misunderstood this.
>>
>
>
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