The crappy thing is: Is that you have to buy all new HDD's. You cant just stick all your current HDD's in and have it work. It reformats all the drives....so you would lose all your data if you just put in the four 500gb drives that you already have. So you gotta spend hundreds more dollars for new drives to format then load your data onto. :/
Wouldn't you just need 1 drive that is as large as your current largest (assuming it's not jammed full)? Pop in the new one, copy data over. Pop in the old one, and let it build up. Fill up free space with data from next drive. Pop in that drive, let it build up...
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m16 @ Jun 5th 2007 2:23AM
The crappy thing is: Is that you have to buy all new HDD's. You cant just stick all your current HDD's in and have it work. It reformats all the drives....so you would lose all your data if you just put in the four 500gb drives that you already have. So you gotta spend hundreds more dollars for new drives to format then load your data onto. :/
Darwin @ Jun 5th 2007 3:36AM
Wouldn't you just need 1 drive that is as large as your current largest (assuming it's not jammed full)? Pop in the new one, copy data over. Pop in the old one, and let it build up. Fill up free space with data from next drive. Pop in that drive, let it build up...
Mike @ Jun 5th 2007 9:49AM
You would suffer the same fate using a RAID 5 array.