Adding Hard Drives to Netserver LH4

[David Johnson_7]

What is the best practice?
I have an HP LH4 running WNT4.
2 18GB drives in a raid array
They are divided into two drive letters C:(4GB) And D: (14GB)

I want to add 4 9GB drives to the system. Should I:

1. Add the 3 drives and make one array (not sure about mixing 9 and 18GB drive together...) then restore from backup.

or

2. Add the 3 drives, Raid them together and assign a new drive letter for more storage space.

What is best practice?

[Theo Hill_1]

Mixing different drive sizes, cause them to use the lowest common device. So the 18GB would then only use 9GB of their capacity. You are better off creating a new array with the discs, and adding a new drive letter.