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Traymond61
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Replace failed drive on PE 1800 Perc /4c Controller
I am trying to be proactive and have an extra hard drive ready to swap if i have a drive failure in my array. My Curent setup shows a 3 disk array with 3 \ 68 gig drives. I don't find 68 gig drives for purchase anywhere. My questions would be.
Are these possibly 73 gig drives that show as 68 gig in the array information ?
Can i add a larger drive than 68 gig to the array if one goes out ? I don't care if it does not use all the space just as long as it will rebuild and work correctly.
Traymond61
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Posted December 19th, 2011 13:00
Thanks so much for the help ... i will proceed
DELL-Chris H
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Posted December 19th, 2011 13:00
Traymond61,
With Dell Raid controllers you can add larger and faster drives into an array. The controller will simply flag the drive as the same as the remaining drives in the array.
With the 68gb drives, they are 73gb drives that after they are added to the array they show the total space minus the array configuration data space that is allocated.
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