Re: [OT] RAID

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends on the hardware RAID card. You may have to create a RAID5 set
with 3 disks leaving existing disk as JBOD. Then move the OS to the
RAID5 and possibly re-configure the boot.ini (or whatever it is now
called in Vista). Then again depending on RAID card add the now
redundant disk to the RAID5 set an expand operation on RAID.

Then again it might not be possible at all.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Rob Mouser" <groups@...> wrote:
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> I know the subject comes up from time to time.................
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> Just a theoretical question. Here is the scenario:
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> Current server is SATA, no raid and one 80gb system drive.
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> Need/want to upgrade to RAID 5.
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> So if a RAID card is added and a further 3 more drives are bolted
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> Will the raid (or software) config be clever enough to start
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> Then could the original 80gb drive be retired.
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> How do I know the answer to that is going to be 'no' :-).
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> In other words go from 'no raid' to 'raid 5' without having to copy
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> Rob
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