Quick Raid Question

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rsgunter

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Okay, never messed with Raid too much, but this should be an easy one for you guys.

Had a client's hard drive fail in a security system computer. It was in Raid 1, so for the time being I unplugged one of the drives and he's up and running.

I'm about to order a new drive, but can't find the drive (made in 2006), but can I just put a similar 500gb drive in there and it will start mirroring data?

Also, I should just be able to install and not mess with the raid system, right?






ps~ The drive now is a WD 500GB RE2, the RE3 is the one I'm looking at grabbing for them.
 
Correct me if I am wrong; but I am fairly certain you can use another drive of a different make, but the total capacity of the raid 1 will be equal to that of the smallest drive.

As long as you stay with the same manufacturer and roughly the same size drive, you should be OK.
 
Just be carefull to make sure the full capacity is the same, ive bought 80gb drives to replace other 80gb drives in mirrors or to clone and found i couldnt, cos the new drives would be anywhere from 1-100MB smaller.
 
Toytown said:
Just be carefull to make sure the full capacity is the same, ive bought 80gb drives to replace other 80gb drives in mirrors or to clone and found i couldnt, cos the new drives would be anywhere from 1-100MB smaller.
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Cool, thanks.


If this work computer wasn't so screwed up it would be easier for me to search, about all I can do is look at forums...anyway.


I'm replacing the RE2 500gb with an RE3 500gb...someone know the specs of that? Should be similar, right?
 
RE2 vs RE3 basically same exact specs; you should be just fine!
 
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