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abshard · 08-18-2010, 02:49 PM

Well I already did it and it worked!

First I added the 500gb and it mirrored the drive(took about 30min)

Then I removed the bad drive and rebooted to make sure everything was fine.

Then I reverted the raid to normal and it said my data would be lost but it remained intact.

Booted up and noticed I only have a 72gig drive but I went to the disk management and was able to expand the drive to full size.

I think next time I get a new drive I will just raid them and mirror then unraid, seems pretty simple.

08-18-2010, 02:49 PM
abshard Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: AZ Posts: 6,352	Well I already did it and it worked! First I added the 500gb and it mirrored the drive(took about 30min) Then I removed the bad drive and rebooted to make sure everything was fine. Then I reverted the raid to normal and it said my data would be lost but it remained intact. Booted up and noticed I only have a 72gig drive but I went to the disk management and was able to expand the drive to full size. I think next time I get a new drive I will just raid them and mirror then unraid, seems pretty simple.