On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 09:17 AM, Vince Hoang wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:31:44PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote:
Is priority one to replace the failed drive for this array? If
so, what size? I can order it tomorrow. I am assuming that it
needs to match the other 120gb drive I donated last year.
One of the root disks died. I believe both were 60GB drives. It
is simplest when the replacement drive is the identical model,
but not necessary. I would personally risk the added complexity
by taking videl offline for several hours and moving the existing
root to a brand new pair of higher capacity drives.
This was my motivation in buying a larger drive. If installed now, it
solves redundancy issues but is not a true permanent solution.
Software raid with different sized drives has a few more steps, I
guess, with formatting, but this is not a big deal, is it? With time,
though, enough money will be gathered to buy a matching larger drive
($177), and hopefully more.
When that time comes we can move to faster drives as Vince has
suggested. The 160gb drive had a great price point, and it really
isn't that bad, is it?
Please wait before we drop it. When server 3 comes on line,
that will be 240 gb of raid storage at our disposal.
The operative word is _when_. Michael?
actually_when_Scott? since Michael has already alerted me that server 3
was ready to return from McKinley and hit the rack. My bad.
-Vince
--scott
