I hope I am in the correct forum, so please excuse me if I am not. (Newbie to forums)
As I was approaching the end of the day, our User Document Storage Server Drives became full and users were unable to save their documents etc.. So I looked quickly to see what the issue was, and saw a full 70Gb hard drive. Since the years have passed and the growth has mushroomed, 70Gb will not be enough. Looking at the disk management (Sever2008) I noticed that the drives were raid 5.
0=OS etc. C:
1=UserGroup1 Storage (70Gb), 2=UserGroup1 Storage(70Gb), E: (Labeled as Raid5)
3=UserGroup2 Storage(147Gb), 4=UserGroup2 Storage(147Gb), 5=UserGroup2 Storage(147Gb), 6=UserGroup2 Storage(147Gb), F: (Labeled as Raid5)
So thinking that if I were to pull Disk2 and replace the drive with a larger drive, Disk1 would rebuild to Disk2. Thus I would then replace Disk1 with a larger drive and Disk2 would rebuild Disk1. Then I would not loose any data and gain more storage room.
I tried it, and the new drive shows a clean new drive, but Disk1 displays "Failed Redundancy".
So the question(s) is/are - will my scheme work? If so how do I get the new disk setup to Raid5 and rebuild from Disk1?
Thank you.