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To: SI Bob who wrote (3443)	11/5/2009 9:02:13 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 4893

There are ways around it. There is software that will adjust the size of your primary and any secondary partitions on an array. You could have used DFS to add the secondary partition to the primary, but in certain OS level operations that doesn't work well. For file system calls it just looks like one big happy drive. In a Raid-5 you absolutely can add capacity easily depending on which controller you bought. Cheap array controllers like perc's often don't include the ability to do it easily. When you get the expensive upgrade array controller it is usually much easier. Usually you have to boot into the array controller and it will rebuild the array. This assumes you have the ability to operate on a backup server while you do the rebuild. You have to get to the $2000+ array controller before you can do it inside the OS. Dell may not have been untruthful. Their people tend to be reading from spec sheets, so unless you know what questions to ask you get accurate yet useless information.