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more room for my Xserve RAID… how?
Hi there all, my problem/question is:
A year ago I never expected using up all 7×400 Gb drives that currently populate the left side of my Xserve Raid (sure I’m not the only one who might have felt the same…) Well I still have about 800 Gb free BUT… I don’t wanna wait until, you know, it’s too damn late.
So, what to do? Can I just add Apple Storage Modules in the right side of that thang and keep on going? Will that simply increase the size of my actual RAID volume or will it mount as a second RAID volume? I don’t see any 400 Gb ASM on the Apple store, only 250 & 500 Gb… will it be OK to mix sizes?
Thanks in advice
Chemix
Canary IslandsBUNKER studio
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4 Replies
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Shouldn’t be a problem since the XRAID has hot-swap drives… the main issue is that you make sure that the drive speed is the same… ie all 7200rpm or all 10000rpm…
Simon Carlson-Thies,
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Thanks. Now will adding more disks increase the current volume or will it be a new volume?
BUNKER studio
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Why don’t you just ask apple when you order…
Simon Carlson-Thies,
Digital Light Graphics And Animation -
If you add same size you can stribe them together as Raid 0 and get double space – if the new drives are bigger you will loose that overhead in the new stribe – but you can create a separate partition for the exceeding size (Each side is normally stribed with Raid 5 and thereafter they appear as 2 drives, which can be stribed as a single volume) Hope it makes sense
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