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extend raid aray
Name: theoneghost Date: June 11, 2008 at 23:53:06 Pacific OS: ms 200 server CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Hi guys,i need a little help on this...i have a windows 2000 server with 2 160gb raid 1 hdd's..problem is that the free space is getting low and i need to upgrade.How can i replace these 160gb raid 1 hdd's with 2 500gb same raid without loosing data (exchange server is on this machine)...motherboard has only 2 sata (Intel s875wp1-e entry )
Name: jefro Date: June 12, 2008 at 13:51:33 Pacific
Reply:
Be sure you understand how to use ntbackup with system state and see also for exchange on MS site.
Depends on your raid bios. Some allow a new larger drive to be installed and then recreate the mirror. Then add in last drive and again re-create mirror.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10
Summary: would it be possible to put both drives on one of the ide channels (which would stil keep my raid aray intact) and had the other channel for additional drives? ...
Summary: The answer to your question is YES. There is the added safety of raid setup, the raid manager keeps an eye on the perfomance of each disk in the array. In the event one starts showing problems, you wi...
Summary: hello chances of all three drives dieing at once not likely. but one drive dieing in a raid aray could afect others depeng on raid type. not familuse with raid 5 so no help there. you might try post...
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