HP Microserver/AMD Raidxpert, changing drives

[rG-tom]

Hi guys,

Bit of a long post so bare with me!

I have an N36L microserver configured as per the below with AMD RAIDXpert:

2x2tb drives in RAID1 (2gb usable, 630gb free) (DATA A)
2x500gb drives in JBOD (striped, 1gb usable) (DATA B)
1x250gb drive as an OS drive

I want to end up with the following:

the 2x2tb drives as standalone drives, no raid, with DATA B on.
the 2x4tb drives in RAID 0, with DATA A on.


My question:

If I unplug the 2x500gb drives, and plug in the 2x4tb drives and configure them into raid 0, transfer all of DATA A over from the 2x 2TB to the new 4tb logical drive, will I then be able to just unplug the 2x2tb drives, put the 2x500gb drives in those slots and the raid controller will "remember" the striped config? Or can it not remember "old" configs in this manner? The idea being, there will be enough free space on the new 4tb logical drive to move all of DATA B before unplugging and decommissioning the 500gb drives and putting the 2x2tb drives back in again.

Also, as another option, what would happen if I took the 2x2tb RAID 1 drives out and put one in an external enclosure, would it be readable as it is?

Thanks in advance!

Tom.

 

[Chris Caudy]

What I might suggest, if the PCIe slot is still available in your machine is to fit a 2-port low profile USB3 card, and use that to shift all your data safely before trying to re-configure the AMD RAIDXpert.
Such as this:-
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/dynamode-2-x-usb-3.0-pci-e-adapter-card-cc-004-dn.html

That's the route I intend to take
regards

 

[rG-tom]

Hi Chris,

Sorry i think I'm missing something, what would i need usb ports for? I don't have an external hard drive.

Perhaps a better option would be to use the eSATA port to plug in a 4tb, move all the stuff from the striped 2x500gb array to that, de-stripe them and then move the stuff back split across the two, then install the drives as i want and again use the esata to get the stuff off of the 500gb drives