Upgrade no raid server to raid

Posted by AZee on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by AZee
Published on 2010-12-22T01:19:27Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 1:56 UTC
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I have just learned that our PDC has a single drive with 2 partitions. I also know that this drive has bad blocks as recorded in the event log. What I would like to do is to convert this to a RAID solution with a nice balance between economy and performance.

I will admit that I have only configured servers with RAID from scratch, and have no experience upgrading an existing system into a RAID system. In fact, I'm not sure it is even possible.

Since this is the PDC for 350+ workstations downtime is important. I'd like to hear from other System Administators how they would tackle this and their recommendations for all devices.

At this time it seems to me that I can replace the existing drive and then restore from backup or install a controller, drives, configure the RAID an basically start from scratch.

Thank you for taking your time. ~AZee

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