Question for the network admin gurus here on the list.
I have a NAS box with two Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drives in a Raid-1 (Mirror) configuration. One of the drives failed. The best value replacement I found is a 2TB Seagate NAS HDD (hard-drive specifically manufactured for NAS). I purchased two identical 2TB drives. The two NAS drives cost less than the cost of a single *refurbished* Seagate ST31500341 1.5TB SATA drive (no longer available new & the price point for new 1.5TB drives was even higher). The RAID will finish rebuilding in about 4 hours, but if I understand how these things work, I will only be able to use 1.5TB of the 2TB drive. Should I go ahead and swap out the other 1.5TB drive & rebuild the RAID a second time? If I do so, will I get full use of the 2TB drives or are they going to be limited by the original 1.5TB RAID Mirror size? I've been using PCs & building my own since 1980. I've had some external USB drives that wouldn't work after sitting for a while & I've had internal drives that failed after sitting on a shelf, but this is the first hard-drive I've had fail in use. (Not including when I worked at the IBM PC Company integrated software sub-systems lab & the programmers abused the shit out of the hardware. I was always replacing drives, motherboards, adapter cards, etc that they'd burned up hot swapping stuff that wasn't intended to be hot swapped. But that's another story.) -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
