These are both things I should know but alas my hardware knowledge is lacking in this aspect.
I have a RAID 10 Setup of 8 146GB SAS drives (all identical). The drives are segmented into groups of 2 with 4 groups total (1 of those groups being a pair of hot swaps)
The controller is a Sun StorageTek SAS (http://www.sun.com/storage/storage_networking/hba/raid/raid_internal.pdf)
I'm on the verge of filling up the drives and I need to expand, so...
TIA
I have a RAID 10 Setup of 8 146GB SAS drives (all identical). The drives are segmented into groups of 2 with 4 groups total (1 of those groups being a pair of hot swaps)
The controller is a Sun StorageTek SAS (http://www.sun.com/storage/storage_networking/hba/raid/raid_internal.pdf)
I'm on the verge of filling up the drives and I need to expand, so...
- Can I add 3 300GB drives (1 as a hotswap) drives to increase capacity or does the entire array fit to the size of the smallest drive?
- (I don't need tons of free space and adding just 1 pair of 300s would set me free for at least two years)
- Can I add drives that are 6Gb/s to my controller that supports only 3Gb/s?
- (If I can buy faster drives now, I should... After enough drives are replaced a new raid card may be warranted)
- Any suggestions on 2.5 SAS Drives? Looking @ 300GB http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/enterprise-ssd-hdd/savvio-10k/
TIA