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SteveMpcrs
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February 24th, 2007 19:00
Upgrade RAID-5 SATA array
Current configuratioin is Poweredge SC1420 running Windows 2003 Server with Serial ATA CONTROLLER CERC-SATA-6CH and three 40GB, 7.2K, WD-XL80SD-2 hard drives in RAID-5 Array. There is not enough space to mount additonal drives, so I'd like to replace the 40's with 250's and clone the existing array. Existing array is partitioned into 3 partitions.
Can I hook three new 250 gb SATA drives in temporarily, configure them as a second RAID-5 set? (How?)
What software can I use to clone the existing array to the new array? (Ghost doesn't work on servers)
At what point and how do I expand the size of the logical D: and E: drives to use the full new space on the larger array?
Then can I simply reconfigure with only the larger RAID-5 set and simply boot and run with room to grow?
