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Author Topic: Increasing Hard Drive Size RAID Configured  (Read 2978 times)

AFEE

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Increasing Hard Drive Size RAID Configured
« on: February 17, 2010, 07:48:02 PM »
I currently have a 321 with two 500G drives RAID configured. I am nearing full capacity on the drives and would like to replace with a pair of 2TB drives. I would like to know if I replace a 500G drive with a 2TB drive will I be able to rebuild the RAID and then replace the remaining 500G drive with a 2TB rebuild again without losing any data.

Has anyone done this before?
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Increasing Hard Drive Size RAID Configured
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2010, 05:28:06 AM »
If you don't have a backup of your data, I suggest you first have a complete backup!  Note that RAID of any level is not backup, if that data is important to you, you should have a backup anyway.

When I did this, I copied all of the data off the unit and put both drives back in and copied all the data back.  IMO, this is the way to approach this issue.

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Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.