Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (818 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/13/2011 6:13 PM, George OLson wrote:

> I have recently purchased a 1TB drive to use as the mirror image, with the 
> intent that the 2nd 500GB on this drive will be used for other
> purposes, like maybe testing a new installation when it comes out, or just 
> having extra data that I don't need on the mirror image
> partition. I have installed the 1TB drive and hooked it up. It is not yet 
> partitioned.

Some bios raid solutions don't allow mixed drive sizes.
Some of them mirror the whole drive and are unaware what OS is actually 
installed.
Others are fake raid and require drivers.  But most of them require matched 
drives.
Software raid does not.

Better check what your bios allows.


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