Re: 1TB Raid?

["paul_watkin" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I asked the question when I bought it and I was told yes you could,=20
however I only installed 3 drives initially as a safegaurd so I could=20
create another seperate array if that info turned out to be=20
incorrect. Albeit at a high cost in that I would have two redundant=20
drives in the box.

Anyone else have experience of this?

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Dean Smith" <dean@e...> wrote:
> Paul
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> Does the Promise Hardware/Drivers allow you to add an extra disk and
> incorporate the raid without losing the current Data ?
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> i.e move from 3 Disk array (500Gb) to 4 disk array (750Gb) and=20
maintain all
> data
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> Dean
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: paul_watkin [mailto:groups@w...]
>   Sent: 24 June 2004 14:52
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: [ukha_d] Re: 1TB Raid?
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>   Hi chris,
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>   I have recently built a 500gig Raid 5 array using the Promise
>   Supertrack (6Port IDE) card and 250Gig Maxtor Drives (3 off).
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>   I went down the IDE route as Maxtor only offer 3 year warranties=20
on
>   some of the IDE drives and they were only a couple of quid more
>   expensie than 1 year warranty non server drives through PC World.
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>   So far working perfectly I have bunged the drives in Icy Docks to
>   keep them cool and although it's in 19" rack case with
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other
>   fans the noise isn't bad. Quiet CPU fan and Quiet PSU help a bit.
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>   Have the headroom to go to 1.25TB should I ever need it
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>   Cheers
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>   Paul
>   --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Chris Bond" <chris@l...>
wrote:
>   > Well sorta on topic for a change cos its for my HA stuff =3D)
>   >
>   > Just wondering the cheapest solutions people have found to
>   implement
>   > a 1TB Raid.
>   >
>   > Looks like 4 x 250GB SATA drives are about going to be about=20
=A3480.
>   > Im not sure about what case to host these in or what raid
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to
>   go
>   > for, i'd want RAID5 minimum on it incase on of the drives go=20
tits
>   up
>   > and thats all my mp3's gone.  It also needs to be queit as=20
it'll be
>   > in my office.
>   >
>   > Phil found a nice firewire case that holds 8 ide drives, im
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bit
>   > nervous in using software raid because of the data on
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SATA
>   > drives are only about =A32 more these days but offer better
speed,
>   > tider cables etc seems a more sensible choice than IDE.
>   >
>   > It would be nice if i had the option to upgrade by adding a few
>   extra
>   > 250GB drives at a later stage too, with RAID5 im taking
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33%
>   > loss leaving about 670GB of space.  Then I can take it upto
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true
>   > RAID5 1TB later on.
>   >
>   > The lacie 1TB bigger disk looks amazing value for money=20
considering
>   > its size and connections on it (works out at about =A3660),
but=20
once
>   > again its lacking RAID5.
>   >
>   > Any ideas or suggestions, without going OTT price wise -
ideally
>   i'd
>   > like to come in no more than =A3600-700 for the lot which
seems=20
hard
>   > considering all of the above.
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