I am a tech but i dont know anything about raids. so here we go.
currently the server has 4 disks in some kind of raid. how do i check what kind of raid they are in? my total HD space is 350. i want to change that to be 2 hard drives each mirrored. so it would still be 4 hard drives but it would be 2 seperate mirrors. like 1-1 and 2-2 .each of 250.
2006-10-06 08:48:30 · 3 answers · asked by Leosphere 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
How you check depends. If it is a hardware controller there is probably a utility. If it is Windows managed it is in Disk Manger.
The two you would probably see are raid 5 or raid 1
Raid 1 is what you said you want. You have 4 250 gb drive you get two drives at 250 each.
Raid 5 you use one as a parity bit. I won't go into details but you would get 750 gb total storage and could lose any one drive and not lose data. This is the most common.
If you want to read a little more http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html
2006-10-06 09:12:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will have to look in the controllers settings to see what raid lvl it is currently.
If the current raid container (drive) is larger than the size of two of the drives together then you wont be able to split it up. If the size is less than two of the drives together then you can go into the raid controller and "reconfigure" the container to be one raid 1 for the existing data and then create a second raid 1 with the other two drives.
Make sure you back up your data first though, just incase.
2006-10-06 08:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by james 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million) purchase an exact same variety hard drive, and only replace out the failed one. in case you had RAID a million, the computing device will take somewhat time to rebuild the stress. 2) No, you'll could modify out both together, till you do not care about RAID. RAID calls for same drives as a thanks to operate
2016-11-26 21:33:14 · answer #3 · answered by seeger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋