[Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 9/24/2012 1:42 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

> Having said that, would it be possible to take
> away on 72Gb drive (say Drive1 the second drive)
> and shove in one of the two 146Gb ones ?

It's always best to manually take a drive off line before pulling it.

> Shouldn't the array be rebuilt ?

Depends on how your 6i is configured.  Best guess is that it will
automatically rebuild the mirror on the new 146GB drive, but...

> Will it use the extra disk space though ?

It will probably not.  You need to read the 6i manual.

I sense a hardware upgrade in your near future, either an HP server with
4 bays, or an SFF8088 JBOD chassis and an inexpensive RAID card.

You already have the 146GB drives correct?  They are HP pluggable
drives?  Which means they only work in HP gear.  If that's the case you
need a new server with at least 4 drive bays.  You you need to buy an
off brand JBOD box and two standard SATA drives.

Or maybe your organizations needs more storage on many servers, and it's
time to step up to an iSCSI SAN array.

-- 
Stan