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Mix Hard Drive Sizes in Rebuilding Raid - 5

Tags: raid, 5, drive, mix
I rebooted a server, and i got the stop 0x0000007B Blue screen after the windows 2000 server screen..

I have a:
SCSI Adaptec Raid Controller V 1.4  2000S

It shows 3 hard drives, IBM IC35L018UWPR15-0
It shows the first 2 as optimal, and the 3rd as "dead"

I am assuming that a hard drive is dead, and this is the reason i cant boot up.
Of course i probably wont be able to find these ibm 17-18gb hard drives...

*****Can i just put any new scsi hard drive and rebuild the array? any size? any speed?******
Its going to be hard to find the drive, and it is probably going to be cheaper to find something larger.
 
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Question Asked By: renet123
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