I have an Areca 1882ix-12 raid card which currently has 6 Hitachi drives attached in raid 3. I found two Samsung hard drives which are the same size that I would like to add to the array, which would make it an 8 drive array.
1) I know you are supposed to use the same drives, but what problems will I create if I use two drives from a different manufacturer (all same size)?
2) Can I just connect them and have the raid card take care of the details, or will I have to make a backup image(all data, no OS) , then break the array and rebuild with the extra drives, then restore the image?
I am using Win7-64
1) I know you are supposed to use the same drives, but what problems will I create if I use two drives from a different manufacturer (all same size)?
2) Can I just connect them and have the raid card take care of the details, or will I have to make a backup image(all data, no OS) , then break the array and rebuild with the extra drives, then restore the image?
I am using Win7-64