Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:47:45 +0100, Richard wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:12:00 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: >> > 2 questions:- >> > >> > 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being >> > paired with ? >> >> Not necessarily, but you will lose the remainder difference spac

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID [Warn: long message]

2011-10-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
>18/10/2011 01:11, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 10/17/2011 5:09 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:12:00PM BST, Camaleón wrote: 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired with ? >>> >>> Not necessarily, but you will lose the remainder differenc

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-18 Thread Richard
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:11:05 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/17/2011 5:09 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:12:00PM BST, Camaleón wrote: > >>> 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired > >>> with ? > >> > >> Not necessarily, but you will lose th

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-18 Thread Richard
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:09:04 +0100 Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:12:00PM BST, Camaleón wrote: > > > 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired > > > with ? > > > > Not necessarily, but you will lose the remainder difference space between > > the sma

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/17/2011 5:09 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:12:00PM BST, Camaleón wrote: >>> 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired >>> with ? >> >> Not necessarily, but you will lose the remainder difference space between >> the smallest and the bigger o

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-17 Thread Richard
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:12:00 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:39:34 +0100, Richard wrote: > > > I'm thinking about adding another 500 GB HD to use RAID. > > Hardware RAID or software RAID? If the latter, what kind of RAID, "md" or > "dm?" And what kind of raid level: 0, 1,

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-17 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, firstly: this is only offtopic if you're not running Debian. Richard (richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk on 2011-10-17 17:39 +0100): > Hi, > I'm thinking about adding another 500 GB HD to use RAID. > 2 questions:- > > 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being > paired with ?

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-17 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:12:00PM BST, Camaleón wrote: > > 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired > > with ? > > Not necessarily, but you will lose the remainder difference space between > the smallest and the bigger of the disks. If you were referring to the > b

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:39:34 +0100, Richard wrote: > I'm thinking about adding another 500 GB HD to use RAID. Hardware RAID or software RAID? If the latter, what kind of RAID, "md" or "dm?" And what kind of raid level: 0, 1, 1+0...? ;-P > 2 questions:- > > 1. does the HD need to be exactly th

OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-17 Thread Richard
Hi, I'm thinking about adding another 500 GB HD to use RAID. 2 questions:- 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired with ? 2. how easy is it to change from a non RAID config to a RAID config. ie. can I just put in the second HD and run something to automagically