Hi,
I've had a 3x400gb RAID 5 in my system for about a year and a half. Finally pulled the trigger on 3x1TB Seagate drives, and proceeded to expand my RAID array. I'm using a Highpoint 2300 card.
First step was to replace each drive one by one and rebuild the array each time. This went smoothly and took about 2 1/2 hours per disk.
Then I went ahead and did an online capacity expansion from 800gb->2TB. I've left the computer on for 13 hours now and it's at 18.5%! Is it supposed to take this long? Seems pretty crazy.
Adrian
I've had a 3x400gb RAID 5 in my system for about a year and a half. Finally pulled the trigger on 3x1TB Seagate drives, and proceeded to expand my RAID array. I'm using a Highpoint 2300 card.
First step was to replace each drive one by one and rebuild the array each time. This went smoothly and took about 2 1/2 hours per disk.
Then I went ahead and did an online capacity expansion from 800gb->2TB. I've left the computer on for 13 hours now and it's at 18.5%! Is it supposed to take this long? Seems pretty crazy.
Adrian