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| On 16 Dec 2004 10:47:23 -0800, tommynospam@yahoo.com wrote:
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> I started out with
>3 250G hard drives but would like to start putting 300G drives for the
>remaining 5 ports. How would the system "see" a configuration with
>mixed 250G and 300G hard drives?
main possibilities are:
2 arrays. 1 from the group of 3 250G drives and another from the
other 5 drives 300G drives
or
1 array made from 8 drives all only using 250G of ea drive with
possibility of using aditional space for another logical drive or
JBOD.
> I know that Raid 5 likes to see all
>drives the same size and just need to know the pit-falls of mixing
>drives of different sizes. With 8-300G drives, I could reach a usable
>capacity of 2T considering that one drive is for parity? If I used
>8-250G, I would only reach 1,750G usable capacity? Is my thinking
>correct?
AFIK that's right
>Next question. Adaptec made the following comment:
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>I guess I don't understand the difference between the "storage
>manager" and "online capacity expansion". The way I read this is I
>have to use the "storage manager" to expand my configuration in XP. If
>I had windows 2000, I could use the storage manager OR the online
>capacity expansion as accessed through a web page?
You can exapand the array and it's logical drive while online using
adaptec's software. Then you will have to enlarge the alocated
partition with MS or 3rd party software like partition magic, Acronis
DDS, etc.
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