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To: Raptech who wrote (74346)	3/1/2011 10:30:41 PM
From: Sexton O Blake	Respond to of 110645

Normally a loud solid tone will emanate from the computer - perhaps some light blinking - perhaps a report when you reboot and go into the RAID portion of the boot process. RAID 1's total space is equal to the space of the smaller drive. So if both drives were 500GB and one drive failed, you could go and buy a new 1TB drive today. Once it (assuming it is automatic), upon powering up, the system should automatically rebuild the RAID array by copying the contents of the 500GB (good drive) onto the 1TB new drive. However, you still would only have 500GB since that is the size of the smallest drive in the array. In theory you could then take out the 500GB (simulating a crash) and install a brand new 1TB drive - and have the system rebuild the array from the GOOD 1TB to the NEW 1TB drive and voila - you have increased your space but maintained your RAID 1 system. (though I am suggesting this - you may want to ask others here should you wish to attempt something like this - I am not so experienced with RAID 1 - limited) Easy to try these things when there is no data at stake. IMO.