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Restore to different size drive, question about how it works
My RAID 5 is 500 GB that is partitioned as C 235GB and E 230GB where C uses 205 of the 235 partition and E uses 36 of the 230 partition. Data takes up 241 and some of that can be moved to a spinnings disk. When I use Acronis to do the bare metal restore, will that work if I use a 245GB SSD? Trying to make it work with the smaller, less expensive SSD, but may need to spend more and get a 512GB? I can't seem to find a Corsair 500GB
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Regarding the restore to a smaller drive issue, will my SBS 2008 and app and all their linking to the files and the database still be in tact? This is the thing I am trying to accomplish, to not have to go back and spend an eternity linking up all the zillions of links. When we crashed last year it took a guy, the guy that wrote the system, about a week to get it all linked up again. My hope in this is to have a fairly failsafe backup plan that when I bare metal restore, it all just works. Thanks for all the input. Hope I am not driving you guys bananas. Love the input. EE is amazing place.
Once I get comfortable with this, I plan to implement, probably next week, buy SSD(s) and test it out on a second server to see how it goes.
Once I get comfortable with this, I plan to implement, probably next week, buy SSD(s) and test it out on a second server to see how it goes.
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I would like to explore that. I realize this may be a pointless discussion, as it may be best practice to put at least two SSD's in service in RAID 1 or 0? Is there any reason to use some other RAID where several smaller drives equate to one larger storage space? If so, is there any redundancy in that? I know. lots of questions. I can break these out into "related questions", if that is better. One problem I see with SSD's expensive is gonig over 500GB gets into stupidly expensive realm for me, so wonder about some RAID configuration that could use 4 or 5 smaller SSD's to create a larger total volume. For example, 5 100GB SSDs to create the size I need? Any benefit like redunancy in that?