YeOldeStonecat
[H]F Junkie
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So this metal fabrication shop I took on as a client....some guy working there originally setup their network. On the cheap. Server was an HP baby server..ML110 or ML150...basically a glorified desktop trying to run as a server. The guy purchased on on the cheap..had just 1 gig of RAM, pair of 160 SATA drives doing on onboard wanna-be RAID 1.
C partition 20 gigs, D partition 140 gigs. C drive with 600 megs free...lol. I came in, immediately stuffed RAM in there to bring her to 4 gigs. 1 of the hard drives in the mirror was tanked..so she was running on broken RAID.
So come up with plan to upgrade those drives. Well, I'd want a real server in there..but no budget. So I pickup 4x drives, WD Black Edition drives..1TB each.
Swap out failed drive...allow mirror to rebuild. Swap out 2nd drive, allow to rebuild.
Cheesy software onboard fake-RAID won't allow expansion...so yeah 840 gigs of the first array go wasted..oh well.
Add 3rd and 4th drives...build RAID 1. Plan is to move the D partition from first array, onto the second array..and then stretch old C to take up the remaining newly freed up 140 gigs. So end result is RAID 1 160 gigs for C, and new 1 TB RAID 1 for D.
Here's the fun part. I fire in Acronis Disk Director...and in prepping the partition adjustments....I find that the D drive is primary and active! Yeah...boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect on are D! Yet \Windows is on C.
WTF.
Just moved 'em over to C and edited boot.ini, changed primary 'n active over to C via Acronis, reboot time!
Sittin' here doing this stuff remotely from the comfort of my couch while watching WWII in Color on History Channel. Some nail biting reboots about to go on here!
C partition 20 gigs, D partition 140 gigs. C drive with 600 megs free...lol. I came in, immediately stuffed RAM in there to bring her to 4 gigs. 1 of the hard drives in the mirror was tanked..so she was running on broken RAID.
So come up with plan to upgrade those drives. Well, I'd want a real server in there..but no budget. So I pickup 4x drives, WD Black Edition drives..1TB each.
Swap out failed drive...allow mirror to rebuild. Swap out 2nd drive, allow to rebuild.
Cheesy software onboard fake-RAID won't allow expansion...so yeah 840 gigs of the first array go wasted..oh well.
Add 3rd and 4th drives...build RAID 1. Plan is to move the D partition from first array, onto the second array..and then stretch old C to take up the remaining newly freed up 140 gigs. So end result is RAID 1 160 gigs for C, and new 1 TB RAID 1 for D.
Here's the fun part. I fire in Acronis Disk Director...and in prepping the partition adjustments....I find that the D drive is primary and active! Yeah...boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect on are D! Yet \Windows is on C.
WTF.
Just moved 'em over to C and edited boot.ini, changed primary 'n active over to C via Acronis, reboot time!
Sittin' here doing this stuff remotely from the comfort of my couch while watching WWII in Color on History Channel. Some nail biting reboots about to go on here!