I have a MD1000, PERC 6, fully populated with 15 Hard Drives.
0-2 are SAS 6.0 Gb/s, 450 GB, 15K drives - configured RAID 5 - represented as a single virtual disk
3-14 are SATA 3.0 Gb/s, 1TB, 7200 RPM drives - configured RAID 6 - represented as a single virtual disk
I want to add another MD1000 fully populated with 15 Hard Drives to use to extend my RAID 6 Virtual disk mentioned above.
I have found two online that I think may work. Both are fully populated with 2TB, 7200 RPM, 64M cache, 6Gb/s drives.
The only difference seems to be that one is populated with SAS drives and the other is SATA, SATA being the cheaper solution, but not by too much...
Questions:
1. Will either of these work for me? If so, and both, then which would be the better choice?
2. Is it going to be ok that the drives making up my current virtual disk that I want to expand are 3Gb/s and the ones in the new array I want to use to expand it are 6Gb/s?
3. Will I be able to expand the Virtual disk without loosing the data currently on it? If so what are the steps in OpenManage to get that done?
Thank you for any help in advance,