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03-23-2009, 12:35 PM | #1 |
Cooling Neophyte
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Few Questions about installing larger drives
Hello all. I've dug through about 10 pages of threads in an effort to avoid asking stupid/redundant questions, and I think I have it figured out, but I want to double check before I tell the boss to drop $500 in drives just to not have them work.
I have a Snap Server 4200 and it works flawlessly for what I use it for (just a big RAID 5 to dump backups in). It has 4 of the 160 gig drives in it. The problem is I'm quickly running out of space. I'm looking at these drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136111 But I have a question. One, will the 4200 be able to see and handle the space on the new drives given my OS and BIOS? 4200 GuardianOS 3.1.079 BIOS: 3B01 From what I gather from reading the posts here, it would behoove me to get an updated version of the OS, but I'm afraid I only have the CD that came with the unit. I actually did run into OS 50133, but when I try to install it I get an error that says: Error updating the OS. Image file does not have the proper signature So basically I'm just asking if I can stick 4 of those drives I linked to into my 4200 and have it work. Thanks! |
03-23-2009, 07:14 PM | #2 |
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Re: Few Questions about installing larger drives
You would need to disable AV, Snapshots, Backup, and any other service running. Break/delete the raid 5. You can have no reference to any HD's .
Power down by gui remove drives 2-4 install new one in to Drive 2 position. boot the 4200. Watch the LED's on drive 2. they will lite for about 10-30 sec while the OS is being transfered. Normally less than 10 min. power down once the OS has been transfered. remove drive 1 move drive 2 to slot 1 boot the server. once up and running you can now hot swap the remaining drives. (2-4)
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03-24-2009, 08:22 AM | #3 |
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Re: Few Questions about installing larger drives
Thank you very much!!
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