It's been a while and I'm looking for a sanity check.
Can someone educate me on lsi 8708-em2 raid cards? I've got an old raid6 array attached to an 8708-em2 card and two of the drives are bad. The underlying drives in the array are from the bad batches of Seagate drives way back that were notorious for being bad. I'm building a NAS and need to buy drives. Ideally I'd buy a bunch of big spinny drives, do a dd copy of the 2TB drives over to the bigger drives, recover and grab the data off the raid6 array, then put the bigger drives in the nas and be done with it.
But, if I remember correctly, didn't that 8708-em2 card have a 2tb drive size max capacity? I have a couple lsi 9260-8i cards. Is it stupid to try and import an already degraded array off of the 8708-em2 card and onto a 9260-8i card that can handle higher capacity drive sizes? It is a 7tb raid array so I don't really want to risk copying 6+ TB of data from a degraded array. If the 8708-em2 card doesn't play nice with drives over 2tb, are there any other options to move the degraded array elsewhere?
Thanks.
The machine has been sitting powered off for a few years and I have no idea what is on the array. It could be nothing (duplicates of things I have) or it could be data I don't want to lose.
Can someone educate me on lsi 8708-em2 raid cards? I've got an old raid6 array attached to an 8708-em2 card and two of the drives are bad. The underlying drives in the array are from the bad batches of Seagate drives way back that were notorious for being bad. I'm building a NAS and need to buy drives. Ideally I'd buy a bunch of big spinny drives, do a dd copy of the 2TB drives over to the bigger drives, recover and grab the data off the raid6 array, then put the bigger drives in the nas and be done with it.
But, if I remember correctly, didn't that 8708-em2 card have a 2tb drive size max capacity? I have a couple lsi 9260-8i cards. Is it stupid to try and import an already degraded array off of the 8708-em2 card and onto a 9260-8i card that can handle higher capacity drive sizes? It is a 7tb raid array so I don't really want to risk copying 6+ TB of data from a degraded array. If the 8708-em2 card doesn't play nice with drives over 2tb, are there any other options to move the degraded array elsewhere?
Thanks.
The machine has been sitting powered off for a few years and I have no idea what is on the array. It could be nothing (duplicates of things I have) or it could be data I don't want to lose.