Hi, I have a 8x200GB RAID5 array - 4 SATA and 4 EIDE. It has 2 spare, so that's only 6 drives actually in the array, making 1TB of space (I think that's right). The drives are quite old now, and people are asking what I want for Christmas...so I'm wondering how to upgrade this setup. Clearly I don't want to retire my existing drives prematurely, since they've shown no sign of problem. My initial thought was to make a RAID1 out of a new 1TB disk and my existing RAID5 array, but perhaps that doesn't make much sense... Perhaps I could get a 400GB drive (or more likely 500GB) and make a RAID1 with a couple of the existing 200GBs? ...but I'm just guessing and the purpose of this email is to get advice. What do you guys think? Max. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
