Re: Areca SATA cards
Ronny Adsetts wrote:
>Michael Loftis said at 15/03/2006 22:45:
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>>OCE? Not familiar with that term....I'm going to guess you mean Online
>>Configuration or something, the 3Ware controllers are not. You can
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>Online Capacity Expansion or adding drives to already defined arrays to increase capacity.
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>The 3ware cards will do this AFAIK, as will the Areca ones, but I'm not sure how the underlying driver and OS handles it having never tried it. My advice would be to try it before you put the machine in to operation (like I keep meaning to do ;-)
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>Ronny
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It should be seamless to the OS etc. You should just have more free
space on the drive, this can be partitioned and formatted as normal. Or
if your FS supports it you can expand the filesystem, but I'm not sure
I'd ever fully trust that on a live system with real data :)
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