-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/09/14 03:03 PM, Ken Heard wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. >> I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement >> a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which I do >> not need to keep. >> >> My first question is: although both drives are the same size, can I get >> away with having one drive a Seagate 3.0 and the other Samsung 2.0?
<snip> > Any replacement drive has to be large enough to hold the RAID data. If > your current RAID1 array is 3T, you cannot add a 2T drive to it without > first shrinking the file system then the RAID array. > > You could however copy all the data to a new RAID1 array consisting of > the 2T drive only, then add a 3T drive to it. The new array will again > only hold 2T. As it happens all of the drives involved are the same size, 1 tb; so I would not have to deal with the problem you raise. What however is different is the *type* of drive; one is SATA 2.0 and the other is 3.0. Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQZqx4ACgkQlNlJzOkJmTcuxgCdE1PtAQ7IwSQIN+3wfifFBSw5 g8oAn1x3fHhSHJSGABAEsW4p1Z9GW0S+ =dOyA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5419ab1e.4080...@teksavvy.com