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August 1st, 2024 09:50

expanding raid1

PowerEdge R6525

The OS raid 1 using BOSS-S2 controller is running out of space, 240GB. 

What is the best option to expand the OS drive compacity without rebuilding or loosing data?

I understand the most straight forward option should be replace the two 240GB SSDs with larger ones? And should follow the below steps? but BOSS-S2 doesn't support consistancy check and put drives offline action.  Could I hot swap them with 480GB,2E,IT06,M.2 sticks?

  1. Put in a larger drive.
  2. Have it rebuild the array on the new drive.
  3. Put in the second new drive.
  4. Have it rebuild the array on that drive.
  5. Then expand raid volume.
  6. Then resize the partition in windows.

Dell mentioned the server has a backplane, so can consider 2x 960GB SATA SSD 2.5” Drives as alternative option. I am not sure what do they mean. Can I use them without rebuilding the server?

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