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Not what I wanted to hear from Dell Tech Support. Basically they said that any disks added to / removed from the array will be based on the smallest disk that was originally part of the array. Looks like I will have to buy the largest practical disks today (750Gb) and start with these on...

Thanks axan, That's what I thought - will probably set fixed raid 1 on 2 drive and have system partitions there and then the rest as a raid 5 array with one partition for data. I knew about the host OS issue (use growfs in linux or gparted/PM in Windows). Jim.

Guys, Understand the concepts of raid technology but just looking to clarify some of the specifics of management on a Perc 5i controller (on a Dell 2900 server). Basically as far as I understand :- 1. For a raid 5 array - the array will utilise n times the smallest disk in the array (if...