RAID 10 (1+ 0)
Hi people - I have a poweredge 2650 with a perc 3 /Di controller - there are 4 36GB drives - I am running out of space and need to add drives. I would like to break one of the raid 1 arrays leaving me with 1 36GB raid 1 array and 3 open drive bays. Then I would install 3 larger drives and configure as raid 5 and move my data to that partition (exchange data store). What do you all think? I suppose I could reload the server and restore from backup but I'm really trying not to do that!
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Andyalder, Gusweb - Thats the big question, Dell won't say it will work because they think when it bombs I'll blame them - I'm looking for someone who has done this - it seems reasonable to me. Another option would be to use partition magic and grow the new partition once I've switched out all of the drives - as far as windows is concerned its one drive - do either of you have any experience using dell array manager in this manner? Thanks
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Andyalder, Thanks for pointing out the raid 0 and not raid 1!
I don't have experience of doing that. I'd build the drives (and OS) restoring from good backups.
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Thanks for the info people - This lets me know that my methods of the past are probably not viable now, at least not with dell servers. Thanks
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I'll make sure all the firmware is up to date today.