Replace RAID 0 array drives for bigger ones

[Ugo Bellavance]

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
>> 	We are using a LSI Logic MegaRAID 521S under linux.  We have 2x36 GB
>> HDD in the server and we'd like to replace them with bigger capacity drives.
>>
>> Would it be possible to:
>>
>> - Purchase 2 146 Go drives
>> - Remove one 36 Go drive, replace it with one 146 Go drive
>> - Wait for the array to rebuild
>> - Do the same with the second drive
>> - Tell the array to use all HDD space available (stretch from 36 GB to
>> 146 GB)
>>
>> Is that possible?
> 
> If it's RAID 0, then there's no meaningful rebuild possible after you've
> removed a disk.  Do you mean RAID 1?


Sorry, I meant RAID 1 (Mirror).

> 
> jh
>