You will just need to create another Raid 0 with the 750GB drive, as you had with the 146GB drive. Then assign it in the OS.
With the 146GB drive, when you get the new one inserted, just select Reconfigure from the drop down menu and then select the original 146GB drive. That will cause the new one to mirror to the original and then convert it to a Raid 1.
If you have just done a clean install to the 7200RPM drive, then yes, boot times will be quicker than a "seasoned" install. All other things being equal (clean install on both, etc.), this should not be the case unless you had a potentially bad drive. Even if the boot times were slower for some reason when all other things were equal, all other disk access would be faster.
Thanks a million. It seems so easy when you are shown the way. I spent countless hours on this thing. I did as you said with regard to adding the 750 and am now formatting it within Server Manager / disk management. Part of the problem is the fear of doing something catastropic and irreversible as the error messages are dire, cryptic and forbidding and many options are buried in arcane places or dont function on some screens (pages).
As an aside I have observed that the system boots perceptibly quicker off the 7200rpm 750Gb SATA drive than than off the 15000rpm 146Gb SAS drive.
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April 19th, 2016 12:00
OldDogGuy,
You will just need to create another Raid 0 with the 750GB drive, as you had with the 146GB drive. Then assign it in the OS.
With the 146GB drive, when you get the new one inserted, just select Reconfigure from the drop down menu and then select the original 146GB drive. That will cause the new one to mirror to the original and then convert it to a Raid 1.
Let me know if this helps.
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April 23rd, 2016 07:00
If you have just done a clean install to the 7200RPM drive, then yes, boot times will be quicker than a "seasoned" install. All other things being equal (clean install on both, etc.), this should not be the case unless you had a potentially bad drive. Even if the boot times were slower for some reason when all other things were equal, all other disk access would be faster.
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April 21st, 2016 22:00
Thanks a million. It seems so easy when you are shown the way. I spent countless hours on this thing. I did as you said with regard to adding the 750 and am now formatting it within Server Manager / disk management. Part of the problem is the fear of doing something catastropic and irreversible as the error messages are dire, cryptic and forbidding and many options are buried in arcane places or dont function on some screens (pages).
As an aside I have observed that the system boots perceptibly quicker off the 7200rpm 750Gb SATA drive than than off the 15000rpm 146Gb SAS drive.