From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
news:4blj531143o4gnm0195suanhq5m8k6tf21{at}4ax.com...
>>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.

5 is different, and anyways I was talking about the cheap controllers
(embedded in motherboards). I know "proper" controllers can
mostly handle different types of disks, but I've seen a few of the low-end
ones throw nasty surprises like that.


Antti Kurenniemi

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