{"id":2122,"date":"2015-10-10T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2015-10-10T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:08:58","slug":"expanding-a-raid-1-array-to-raid-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/expanding-a-raid-1-array-to-raid-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding a RAID 1 array to RAID 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years back, I moved from a full tower for my file server to a small <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ34B0778\">HP Proliant MicroServer<\/a> (I&#8217;ve been very happy with this move). When I made that move, I went from 4x750GB in a RAID 10 configuration to only 2x750GB in a RAID 1 configuration. However, I keep taking photos and I noticed I was running out of space. Since I had the extra Hard Drives just sitting around, I decided to put them back into use. the hardest part was that there are only four HDD slots in the server, and I was using one of them for the boot drive.<\/p>\n<p>However, I had long noticed that there was a 5.25 inch drive bay in the server that was conspicuously unused. All I needed was an adapter. It took me two years to finally get around to this project, but today was the day! I found a drive bay adapater and SATA power and data cables, then got to work. From a physical perspective, it was fairly straightforward once I had all the parts; the hardest part ended up being finding the extra SATA port on the motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit wary when I booted the thing &#8212; the hard drives I used had previously been a part of the 1.5TB array that the other two came from. Fortunately, everything went smoothly. It was then a rather simple matter of finding <a href=\"http:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/43677\/best-way-to-grow-linux-software-raid-1-to-raid-10\">this excellent guide<\/a> on ServerFault to rebuild the array into RAID 10 once again.<\/p>\n<p>Yay technology; internet FTW!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years back, I moved from a full tower for my file server to a small HP Proliant MicroServer (I&#8217;ve been very happy with this move). When I made that move, I went from 4x750GB in a RAID 10 configuration to only 2x750GB in a RAID 1 configuration. However, I keep taking photos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}