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DL380-G6 Expanding RAID 1
I don't know if my controller has a battery backed cache or not. HP seems to make at least 4 different variants of the P410 so I'll have to see which one my server shipped with: HP Smart Array P410/256MB Controller 462862-B21 HP Smart Array P410/512MB with BBWC 462864-B21 HP Smart Array... -
DL380-G6 Expanding RAID 1
I don't know what to think now. I read this on the HP site: "When increased capacity is required, an administrator can replace half of the drives in a RAID 1 or RAID 1+0 array with larger capacity drives and rebuild the new drives. Afterwards, the administrator can replace the other half of... -
DL380-G6 Expanding RAID 1
Thanks for the replies guys. I'll order the bigger drives and see how it goes. -
DL380-G6 Expanding RAID 1
I have a G6 server equipped with a mirrored pair of 73GB 15k rpm drives for the Server 2008 R2 system/boot volume. I have 4 more 146GB drives setup in a RAID 5 for storing programs and data. Everything is working fiine, but I now realize I should have spec'd larger drives for the OS. With...
