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Unread 03-19-2010, 09:11 AM   #6
r3zon8
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Default Re: Larger Drives in 4500

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Originally Posted by paulsamuelson View Post
Has anyone successfully increased the drive size in a 4500, beyond what came from the factory?

I unsuccessfully tried the following,

"Boot with drive 1. The hot swap drive 2. Then power down and move drive 2 to 1. Reboot, then hot swap the rest of the drives."

Now my drives must be marked as having been installed. They show as 488 GB drives but only have 200 some odd available for an array.

Based on reports I have read here, I am not convinced it is even possible to get more space out of a 4500.

Thanks,

Paul Samuelson

im assuming this method will break the raid5 on the old(smaller) disks that were in there.

I have only 1 4500 running 4.1.106 and need more space...but if anything happens during the upgrade process I'd like to know that I can drop the 4 original drives back in and the machine will still come up as before i started working on it...

ps. any benefits to looking/paying for an updated GOS version?
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