I have a windows 2003 Server. It has a mirrored drive. One of the
drives has failed. The drive is a Quantum Atlas 36Gig 7200 RPM.
These drives it appears are hard to get, perhaps they dont make them
anymore. Anyway, the question is: Can I buy any SCSI drive and use it
as the New drive to mirror with the one healthy drive? E.g. Can I use
a 72 Gig SCSI. Does it use of the 36 gig and then just toss the other
gigs away? (which is aceptable) I Just want to get the mirror back up.
Does it matter that the new drive is 7200, RPM, like the remaining
drive?. Would it be best to get the same speed? I understand that
nothing will run faster than the slowest drive. Again I just want to
replace the drive and get fault tolerace back up.
steve <stevesemple@lycos.com> wrote:
> I have a windows 2003 Server. It has a mirrored drive. One of the
> drives has failed. The drive is a Quantum Atlas 36Gig 7200 RPM.
>
> These drives it appears are hard to get, perhaps they dont make them
> anymore. Anyway, the question is: Can I buy any SCSI drive and use it
> as the New drive to mirror with the one healthy drive? E.g. Can I use
> a 72 Gig SCSI. Does it use of the 36 gig and then just toss the other
> gigs away? (which is aceptable) I Just want to get the mirror back up.
> Does it matter that the new drive is 7200, RPM, like the remaining
> drive?. Would it be best to get the same speed? I understand that
> nothing will run faster than the slowest drive. Again I just want to
> replace the drive and get fault tolerace back up.
>
> Thanks.
>
you don't need the exact same disk. Anything the same size or larger will
work.
You can growing into new 72 GB disks.
Rebuilt on the new disk, then boot off the new disk to test things out.
Break the mirror from the old disk (but don't fiddle with it, it's your
backup) and remirror to the second new disk. You can grow drive letters
instead of adding new ones if you have that dynamic disk stuff enabled.
Failed Windows Mirror What drive to use ?? 
Linear Mode
