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Expanding a 1.2TB Raid?

Apr 16, 2006 3:14PM PDT

I have an 8 port raid controller (Rocketraid 2220) with 6 400GB drives. Four of them were in a level 5 RAID. I added a fifth drive to the RAID. When the online expansion was completed the Win 2000 Server drive manager showed a 1.6TB drive with a 1.2TB NTFS partition and 400GB of unpartitioned space. Can I use Partition Magic or something like it to expand the partition out to the total size of the RAID? I eventually will expand the Raid to 8 400GB Drives. Would it cause any additional problems if I added the rest of the drives now and then expanded the partition?

Terry

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Don't ask me.
Apr 17, 2006 10:45PM PDT

Please ask the makers of said monster raid. Here's why. They would have the experience of such expansions and can tell you if PM will do the deed.

Any advice from me is not from experience on your setup, but then again with that much data I bet you have a disaster recovery plan that you could just start over with the size drive you wanted and execute 'the plan'.

Bob

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I guess I've become too much of a geek
Apr 18, 2006 1:45AM PDT

This RAID is something I put together last month for home use. As such there really isn't a disaster recovery plan, or anyone around to ask. With all I've read about people using RAIDs for gaming and media storage I really did think you would have experience with this.

Sorry for bothering you.

Terry

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Yes I do, but not with yours. Here's what I've witnessed.
Apr 18, 2006 1:55AM PDT

When people call me about this, it's to discuss the failure and data recovery of such. In your case, I don't know because there are none around me and I don't own it.

-> You are not a bother. I noted that I'm not the right person to ask since I really don't know on this one.

But I know who I would be asking and hope you contact them.

Bob