1748265 Members
3980 Online
108760 Solutions
New Discussion юеВ

raid configuration

 
deepak.u
New Member

raid configuration

hi, i hav raid 5 with three scsi, one of the scsi hdd is corrupt. But that configuration is not available in the store. can i use higher capacity scsi.
2 REPLIES 2
TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: raid configuration

Yes you can use a larger disk drive. Not all of its space will be used, only the amount equal to the size of the other disks. The remaining space on the new larger disk will remain unusable and inaccessible.
Steven Clementi
Honored Contributor

Re: raid configuration

"The remaining space on the new larger disk will remain unusable and inaccessible."

Yes, this is true. Also understand that eventually... if you replace the remaining drives with the same size as the new one... you will once again be able to use the additional space.


Steven
Steven Clementi
HP Master ASE, Storage, Servers, and Clustering
MCSE (NT 4.0, W2K, W2K3)
VCP (ESX2, Vi3, vSphere4, vSphere5, vSphere 6.x)
RHCE
NPP3 (Nutanix Platform Professional)