Soldato
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I'm interested in setting my Windows Server 2003 fileserver in JBOD, but have a few queries. I'm mainly interested to have the disks appear as a single drive. I have a seperate RAID1 array for critical files, which is backed up regularly.
I'm certain it is ok, but I can mix drives?
Can I add drives to the array at a later date (ie set up now with 5 disks, add a 6th later and the array increases in size, without any data loss or messing around)?
Can I remove a drive from the array with no impact to the rest of the array?
Can I remove a drive from the array and how would windows read that on a different non raid controller?
If I lose a drive, do I lose the data on that drive?
Are files split across disks?
Anything I've missed? Any advice?
I'm certain it is ok, but I can mix drives?
Can I add drives to the array at a later date (ie set up now with 5 disks, add a 6th later and the array increases in size, without any data loss or messing around)?
Can I remove a drive from the array with no impact to the rest of the array?
Can I remove a drive from the array and how would windows read that on a different non raid controller?
If I lose a drive, do I lose the data on that drive?
Are files split across disks?
Anything I've missed? Any advice?