I have a Win 2003 SBS server (Dell PE400 SC). It has 2 drives (40GB each). The following volumes are present:
Disk 1 = C: (12GB), D: (25 GB)
Disk 2 = E: (40 GB)
I am running out of room on C: At the same time I would like to implement a RAID 5. I was thinking of installing a PCI RAID Controller and configuring 4 disks (320 GB each) in a RAID 5 config.
This is how I was planning on doing it. Take an image of the server using Acronis. Configure the RAID, bring back the image on the new RAID disks.
Here is the question. How will my existing drive letters (C,D,E) behave. Will they still be there, will they still have the same size. Is there any other/better way of doing this. Thanks in advance for the help.
Disk 1 = C: (12GB), D: (25 GB)
Disk 2 = E: (40 GB)
I am running out of room on C: At the same time I would like to implement a RAID 5. I was thinking of installing a PCI RAID Controller and configuring 4 disks (320 GB each) in a RAID 5 config.
This is how I was planning on doing it. Take an image of the server using Acronis. Configure the RAID, bring back the image on the new RAID disks.
Here is the question. How will my existing drive letters (C,D,E) behave. Will they still be there, will they still have the same size. Is there any other/better way of doing this. Thanks in advance for the help.
