- Jun 25, 2005
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I am running out of space. So i want to increase the storage capacity of one of my raid5 arrays.
the array consists of
200x3 = 400gb of total space
Now i want to upgrade the array. by swapping out the 200gb drives with 320gb w/o loosing data.
my raid controller is the highpoint rocketraid 2320.=, if that is important.
My idea is just to hotswap one 200gb at a time and replace it with a 320gb. then let it rebuilt after each swap. time consuming, but it works. I dont have enough ports just to plug in the new 320gb drives and create a new array and then copy the data. so this seems like the best solution.
how does it sound? is it possible?
the array consists of
200x3 = 400gb of total space
Now i want to upgrade the array. by swapping out the 200gb drives with 320gb w/o loosing data.
my raid controller is the highpoint rocketraid 2320.=, if that is important.
My idea is just to hotswap one 200gb at a time and replace it with a 320gb. then let it rebuilt after each swap. time consuming, but it works. I dont have enough ports just to plug in the new 320gb drives and create a new array and then copy the data. so this seems like the best solution.
how does it sound? is it possible?