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by arief

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My server storage is getting low. It is a proliant LM370 configured for RAID5. With 4 (36.4gb wide pluggable ultra3 15k drive) with smart Array 5i plus controller. The drives are configured volume c: (operating system 4gb) and E: data (97.8gb) both are dynamic. The operating system is windows 2000.
I have two empty bays. Could I add extra hard drive and increase the volume? I?m getting confused here. Some articles say it could be done and some say you can not make a stripe set bigger or extend it to another disk. I have not deal with this issue before, any help would be appreciated. How to is even better.

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by stress junkie

The Proliant line is Compaq which is now HP. If I were in your position I would ask HP. They have an interest in helping you because they would want to sell the disks to you and put those disks on your maintenance contract.

by hal 9000

But I do not know how they will interact with your existing RAID Array.

The Proliant series uses hot swappable SCSI drives and provided you get the right type the narrow kind they will fit in and with 2 spare slots you can fill them but if you buy the bigger versions one will take up the 2 slots as they are very high. AS this is a server you should contact HP for them to supply the parts and service contract otherwise you may be stuck with something that doesn't work as you would like it to.

Granted HP will charge you an arm and a leg for the parts and the service contract but then it is their problem to make it work and keep it working.

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by marc.kuerten

Hi,

you need to make sure you have latest firmware and driver versions as well! After that just plug in new drives and extend array within HP Drive-Array-Configuration Tool. After that your harddrive in Win2k should show a bigger drive and you just need to use things like "ServerMagic" to move and extend partitions ..

Cheers, Marc
(contact me if you need more detailed assistance)

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