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Re: Areca SATA cards





--On March 16, 2006 9:11:09 AM +0000 Ronny Adsetts <ronny.adsetts@amazinginternet.com> wrote:

Michael Loftis said at 15/03/2006 22:45:

OCE?  Not familiar with that term....I'm going to guess you mean Online
Configuration or something, the 3Ware controllers are not.  You can

Online Capacity Expansion or adding drives to already defined arrays to
increase capacity.

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 ;-)


Ah well, tehre's nothing online about it, you've got to get into the card's BIOS and AFAIK only stripes and mirrors, not R5 sets. I'll have to look at our newer card, but I know our older one would only expand stripes or mirrors.



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