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Hot RAID swapping?
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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I have a feeling you'd end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.
Warning you, I've had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn't want to mix ssds and hdds.
I suspect I'll have an issue after reading many of the comments. This is also an older Dell server. My only real advantage is that it's currently hosting 2 VMs and one is just a test server, so I don't mind losing the data.
Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great -- it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it'll compress everything.