Disk upgrade

I'm running out of room in a box to add drives, so I want to go to
larger drives. Unfortunately I have but one bay left. What I would like
to do is put in a single drive, create a raid-10f2 array with a missing
device, and copying all of the data off the existing arrays onto the
raid-10 array, then diddling the boot so I can get up off the new drive,
removing the old drives, adding another new drive and adding that to the
array, along with a spare, perhaps.

Any particular problems with that plan? It leaves the existing drives
intact, and critical data is backup via rsync on both a removable device
and to network storage.


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Bill Davidsen
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010



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Re: Disk upgrade

On 6/10/2011 9:09 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I'm running out of room in a box to add drives, so I want to go to
> larger drives. Unfortunately I have but one bay left.

Cases are cheap. Buy a new case with plenty of bays and cooling:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147 154
8 x 3.5" internal bays w/drive rails, 3 x 5.25" external bays, excellent
cooling, $80 USD, reuse your current PSU and internals, grab a new PSU
if needed to handle all the drives.

If you start running out of 3.5" internal bays start adding these to
your 5.25" bays:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994 095

With current 2.5" drives you can get up to 12TB raw in the 3 5.25" bays
on top of the 24TB raw available with the 8 3.5" bays, 36TB total.

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