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RAID 1 newbie question - non identical disks
Hi,
I have a 120GB IBM Deskstar and after being concerned that it might bite the dust in the future (heard some dodgy stories about deathstars) I want to set up a RAID 1 array. I bought a Seagate 120GB drive since I didn;t want another IBM. My question is would I be able to use this Seagate disk to mirror the IBM as the BIOS reports the IBM size as 117XXX in size and the Seagate 114XXX in size. Is there any way theyre gonna work together? Thanks in advance, Matt |
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Probably, the raid will be set up dependant on the smaller of the drives.
But why not ghost your data etc across and use the older drive for non-essential stuff, like games apps etc. the_gnome "Matt Fletcher" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a 120GB IBM Deskstar and after being concerned that it might bite the dust in the future (heard some dodgy stories about deathstars) I want to set up a RAID 1 array. I bought a Seagate 120GB drive since I didn;t want another IBM. My question is would I be able to use this Seagate disk to mirror the IBM as the BIOS reports the IBM size as 117XXX in size and the Seagate 114XXX in size. Is there any way theyre gonna work together? Thanks in advance, Matt |
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IIRC it will build the RAID array using the smallest disk in the setup....
Any extra space on the bigger disk is just lost.... -- Tumppi Reply to group ================================================= Most learned on nntp://news.mircosoft.com Helsinki, Finland (remove _NOSPAM) (translations from FI/SE not always accurate) ================================================= "Matt Fletcher" kirjoitti viestissä ... Hi, I have a 120GB IBM Deskstar and after being concerned that it might bite the dust in the future (heard some dodgy stories about deathstars) I want to set up a RAID 1 array. I bought a Seagate 120GB drive since I didn;t want another IBM. My question is would I be able to use this Seagate disk to mirror the IBM as the BIOS reports the IBM size as 117XXX in size and the Seagate 114XXX in size. Is there any way theyre gonna work together? Thanks in advance, Matt |
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"Thomas Wendell" wrote in
: IIRC it will build the RAID array using the smallest disk in the setup.... Any extra space on the bigger disk is just lost.... Thanks for the reply That would be superb if it did. Is this a standard feature on all raid cards? |
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I believe it is. They both need to be formatted the same, not able to have
one as FAT and the other as NTFS the_gnome "Matt Fletcher" wrote in message 52.50... "Thomas Wendell" wrote in : IIRC it will build the RAID array using the smallest disk in the setup.... Any extra space on the bigger disk is just lost.... Thanks for the reply That would be superb if it did. Is this a standard feature on all raid cards? |
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Thanks for the suggestion.
Think is im lazy when it comes to back up. Id love to have all my data instantly copied without thinking about it. |
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