Re: "big" machines running Debian?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> On 02/26/2009 02:51 PM, Alex Samad wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> I have gone through a few cycles of changing the underlying drive sizes,
>> ie a 3 disk raid5 made up of 3 x 500Gb and replacing in line with 3 x
>> TB.  pop 1 disk replace with 1 TB once it has settled you can do an
>> online expansion.  Not sure if you can do that on a HW raid.
>
> You used to not be able to.  Not sure about modern controllers.

Depends on the firmware and roughly speaking the price of your raid.

MfG
        Goswin