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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: John Cuccia
date: 2007-05-27 14:03:40
subject: Re: Raid 1

From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:53:01 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>The only thing is, if you blow one disk after
>two or so years, you won't be able to find a replacement (usually has to be
>exactly the same for HW raids), so you'll have to build the whole thing
>anew.

???

I've replaced failed array drives with newer, larger ones, but only the
capacity of the original (failed) drive is available to the array.

Note that I've never tried it with a RAID-1 set, but I've done it several
times in RAID-5 arrays.

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