I did do a backup of course! It's just something I do so completely forgot to mention it...
On 26 June 2015 at 07:41, Toine <[email protected]> wrote: > I would make a backup copy to an external drive or PC first, minimal > the critical files like photo's. Remember Murhpy's law: Anything that > can go wrong, will go wrong > > On 26 June 2015 at 04:19, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
