Resizing RAID 1 Array on Dell PowerEdge with Perc 4/Di & Windows SBS 2003
- by Scott McKinney
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2600 with Perc 4/Di RAID card and Windows SBS 2003 installed. The original system drive was a set of 17GB drives in a RAID 1 array. Over the years, these drives have failed (individually) and been replaced by a set of 73GB drives, but the RAID array is still 17GB in size.
Is there a safe procedure to resize the RAID 1 array to use the entire 73GB without destroying/corrupting the data on the array?
The Perc documentation mentions a Reconstruct option with Online Capacity Expansion, but is a woefully short on the exact details. Has anyone performed this procedure successfully (or unsuccessfully)? What were the steps? Are there any gotchas I should watch out for?