7 Feb
2014
7 Feb
'14
11:34 a.m.
From: Jeff Allison jeff.allison@allygray.2y.net
Ok I've a HP mircoserver that I'm building up. It's got 4 bays for be used for data that I'm considering setup up woth softwere raid (mdadm) I've 2 x 2TB 2 x 2.5 TB and 2 x 1TB, I'm leaning towards usig the 4 2.x TB is a raid 5 array to get 6TB.
Just a reminder that (at least in the Gen8) bays 1+2 are 6G, but bays 3+4 are 3G. So you might lose a tiny bit of speed if you pair them in a RAID5.
For the "migration", to make it clean and simple, I would just copy the data temporarily on USB external disks; which I would use anyway for backups.
JD