Raid 5 Help

[ccamando]

I have an old raid 5 setup. Being a business I cant just change it. So I will have to work with what I have. I was considering an SSD upgrade. If I go this route can I mix match drives spinners with ssd one at a time to rebuild the array on each ssd? Also will I notice a speed increase or will it be very minor? What are my real benefits in doing this. And I am looking at using 1 TB drives. So what would you recommend that would not break the bank. With sata interface. I currently have Seagate barracudas in the server.

[Windows7ge]

If you're on a 1Gig network and have a very small number of clients you won't see much of a difference at all. You're probably better sticking with spinning platters in that case.

 

Performance benefits are really going to depend on what's controlling the RAID. Are you using a hardware controller? Software? If software. what type? What file system?

 

Theoretically you could replace the disks one at a time with SSDs you'd just have to expand the volume once you finish adding them all. However if the cumulative SSDs hold less than the HDD's storage I'm not certain you can do that. I think you'd need to move the data somewhere temporarily and just outright destroy and rebuld the array with new drives but don't quote me on that.

[ccamando]

This actually sounds a bit complicated with a potential for data loss I think for now with this old server i'm gonna stick to my spinners thank you I never got any notifications. Thanks again for the reply.