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Well, that was inevitable. With one partition just about at capacity and the other over 75%, it was time for that upgrade.

Array full

So here we go: twelve Western Digital 1002FBYS - one terabyte RE3 drives

12T!!

WD1002FBYS

Next to load them into the empty drive bays:

Drive installation

Drive installation

Total installation time: 25 minutes! (I love this case)

Time to fire up the machine, check the second RAID card's BIOS and sure enough it sees the new drives:

RAID card BIOS

Again, one drive is configured as a hot spare:

Hot Spare

And the new array is initialized. About three hours later the machine booted up as normal and - tada! - it shows a new 9TB array:

New array!

New array!

Finally, each of the new partitions is formatted and its ready to go:

Five new partitions

That should last a while!

 

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