#Windows home server 2011 hardware raid mac

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Initially just music, ripping all my CDs plus some vinyl. I have had a media server in several forms since iTunes first came into being. The only reason Extend will not work is if your RAID array is also your boot disk in which case you'll need to boot from another disk to extend your partition.Great article. This will happen instantly and there is no need to reboot the system.

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Now simply type 'extend' you will then be able to use all the available free space on the disk and merge it with that partition. Then type 'list partition' now type 'select partition #' to select the partition you want to extend. You will then type 'select disk #' to choose the disk which has the partition on it you wish to modify. Once that runs you may want to type help and press enter to see all the commands.ДЄt this point you'll use the commands 'list disk' - This will show you all the disks in your system. You go to command prompt and type in diskpart.exe and press enter. I know this sounds daunting if you are not familiar with CLI but it is quite simple. On Windows XP, 2003 and Windows Home Server however you will need to do it from the command line.

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On Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2 and Windows Vista you can merely open 'Computer Management' from the Control Panel and go to Disk Management and then right click on the partition and select 'Expand' (You will need to wait for the full OCE expansion to complete before the extra free space is recognised by Windows). Again always keep backups.ДЄfter you've expanded your array you will now need to expand your partition. If you choose to continue with the expansion and do a rebuild after it completes remember this, if another drive should fail during the process you may lose all data. Or you can choose to allow the expansion to continue and after it is complete add a new disk to the array and begin a rebuild. You can choose to at this point pause the process indefinitely (it cannot be cancelled once started) move all your data. Now your main question here will be what happens if during the expansion process one of the disks fails? - The expansion will pause and tell you of the fault. This process will also take considerable time. This process will leave all your files intact.

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The software will then 'migrate' your current RAID5 array in to a new RAID5 array that includes the extra disk. You simply add the extra disk to your server, initliaze the new disk (which takes only a few seconds) then click on the OCE button in the RAID software and add the new disk to your RAID5 array. OCE or 'Online Capacity Expansion' will allow you to expand your array without losing data.

But keep in mind you should always have backups regardless. It is in my opinion that you should only move data on to the array at this point for which you have reliable backups. Like you found out Background Initialisation will allow you to write/read data to/from the array immediately but in the case of RAID5 will not yet be fault tolerant. I have several HighPoint RAID Cards with several RAID5 arrays so I can answer your questions.ДЎ. I have all the data on the 2TB drive also on DVD's, so if something goes wrong I still have the data, but it will take several hours/days to copy that data beck from DVD's-> HDD, so I would prefer to not lose what's already on the HDD's if possible. This is of course assuming that no drive will die while expanding the array. Can I copy the data from the 2TB drive to the array, then add the 2TB drive to the array and expand the array without losing data? (the card supports online capacity expansion) Do I need to wait for the 'Initialization' that's currently going on to finish before doing this, or can I stop it and expand the array even if it's uninitialized? I have 1 more 2TB drive that I want to add to the array, the only problem is I don't have any other space to store the data on that drive while I add it to the array. What exactly is it doing? Calculating the parity? Can I use the array now or do I need to wait for it to finish initializing? I tried saving to the array and it seems to work fine.Дў. When I check the Management console for the array, I see it's currently Initializing the array, and says it will complete in approx. I selected 'Background Initialization' when creating the array. It's using a Highpoint RocketRaid 2640x4 card. I'm putting together a Home Server that's using RAID 5.