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тАО02-10-2007 07:22 PM
тАО02-10-2007 07:22 PM
I have added 2 -300Gb drives, have successfully extended this thru ACU. After the expansion, the Logical Drive shows that the 2 new 300Gb has been added to the Array. However, it only shows that the Array has a total of 840Gb. I go into Disk Management, it shows that I have 270Gb of Unallocated space on the same disk drive.
My questions are:
1) How do I add the unallocated new space into the existing 560Gb partition w/o damaging any of the existing data. (this is a Win2K SP4 server and I am aware of Diskpart but never used it, but can use it if this is the route to go).
2) I added 2 -300Gb drives, how come it's only showing 270Gb unallocated space? Where's the other 300Gb?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Phoenix~
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тАО02-10-2007 11:21 PM
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тАО02-11-2007 04:12 AM
тАО02-11-2007 04:12 AM
Re: Array expansion on 6i Controller
Thanks for the prompt response. I will use DiskPart to extend the windows volume then.
The external array has 14 available disk or LUN; before the expansion, I had 5 existing drives of 146Gb in the array already. After the expansion, the array shows that the new 2 -300Gb were added but like I said in my original post, I'm only getting an additional 274Gb as unallocated. This is a RAID 5 volume, theortically, I should see an increase of almost 600Gb; or total volume of over 1TB.
Thanks again for your response.
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тАО02-11-2007 04:37 AM
тАО02-11-2007 04:37 AM
Re: Array expansion on 6i Controller
I read your post.
As you say, you have 5 HDs of 146 GB in raid 5 and the dimension of your array is 540 GB that is around 4x140 GB = 560 GB.
the fifth Hd is the "hot spare".
you have added 2 HD of 300 GB.
raid 5 need minimum 3 HDs: 2 HDs + hot spare.
if you want 600 GB more, instead of 300, you have to add one 300 GB more.
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take a look at theis link:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/_common/br_host/_education/talk_about_raid.htm
bye
TJK
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тАО02-11-2007 04:49 AM
тАО02-11-2007 04:49 AM
Re: Array expansion on 6i Controller
I "assumed" the RAID 5 was already active and be adding the 2 additional 300Gb, the 600Gb would just be added to the exiting RAID 5 because there was already a hot spare? Essentially what you're saying is that if you're going to add more storage in a RAID 5 volume, you're going to loose 1 drive for hot spare everytime? Is this correct?
Thanks for your response and help!
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тАО02-11-2007 04:53 AM
тАО02-11-2007 04:53 AM
Re: Array expansion on 6i Controller
no, not "anytime", but anytime you add HDs of different size.
raid 5, assumes: minimmum 2 HD + hot spare "OF THE SAME SIZE".
bye
TJK
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тАО02-11-2007 05:03 AM
тАО02-11-2007 05:03 AM
Re: Array expansion on 6i Controller
So if the new drives were the same as the existing 146Gb, I wouldn't have this problem? or the hot spare will still be in play no matter?
Thanks again.
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тАО02-11-2007 05:04 AM
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тАО02-11-2007 05:07 AM
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тАО02-11-2007 05:09 AM
тАО02-11-2007 05:09 AM
Re: Array expansion on 6i Controller
I guess I should have gone with a new Logical Volume then.
Thanks Jackal and Marek for your help!