Rebuilding Raid 1, Hard Drive Size ?

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Limp Gawd
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One drive has gone bad on my wife's computer. I set it up with 2x 80 gig drives in raid 1. Do I have to use the same drive when rebuilding? Same manufacturer and size? New, large drive are fairly cheap right now, so it seemes like a good time to upgrade. Can I add like a 200 gig drive into the setup and just not use the space now until I get a second drive?
 
Yes, and it will still be an 80GB RAID-1. You may take a slight performance hit frm running it asymmetricly, but you will probably not notice and if you are running RAID-1 you probably don't care about performance that much.

You will most likely, unless your RAID BIOS is smarter than I give it credit for, have to backup and rebuild the array when you get the second 200GB to make the array 200GB.
 
DougLite said:
You will most likely, unless your RAID BIOS is smarter than I give it credit for, have to backup and rebuild the array when you get the second 200GB to make the array 200GB.
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Seeing as you have to get into pretty expensive controllers most times before online capacity expansion is supported? Yeah, most likely true.
 
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