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Upgrading hard drives in G4 Server (jaguar)
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Hello people
I have a G4 Server (2x1GHz) with 2 80 GB harddrives that are mirrored (RAID ?).
I want to exchange the 2 80GB drives with 2 larger drives (I have bought 2 250 GB drives), but I have no idea how to do it.
If I take one of the installed disks out and replace it, will it automatically mirror itself to the new drive? And once that is done, can i simply take the other 80 GB drive out and replace it ?
Or how do people do that kind of thing?
Thank you in advance
Peter
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Originally posted by peter_cph:
Hello people
I have a G4 Server (2x1GHz) with 2 80 GB harddrives that are mirrored (RAID ?).
I want to exchange the 2 80GB drives with 2 larger drives (I have bought 2 250 GB drives), but I have no idea how to do it.
If I take one of the installed disks out and replace it, will it automatically mirror itself to the new drive? And once that is done, can i simply take the other 80 GB drive out and replace it ?
Or how do people do that kind of thing?
Thank you in advance
Peter
The mechanics of replacing the drives is simple. Disconnect the cables, take out a few screws, and put the new ones in & your done.
However, the raid thing is a bit different....
It is my understanding that BOTH drives in a RAID setup have to be the same size in order to utilize the full capacity of each drive. So an 80GB and a 250 GB drive in a raid set-up would only yield you an 80 GB redundant capacity and the rest of the 250 would go unused.....a BIG waste of space.
Maybe someone else can comment on that aspect of the change for you 
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You will have to install the new drives in the machine while the old ones are still installed, use Disk Utility to form a new raid system on the 2 new drives, and then transfer your data (plus install a system if you intend to take out the old raid setup). But first, what model of G4 Tower Server is it? If it is a MDD which has space and cables for 4 drives, you are in luck. Otherwise you are looking at the purchase of a PCI card to hook up the new drives. Anotherway around is to backup your data on a firewire drive, alternatively using carbon copy cloner to clone your operating system too. Then you would boot up from the firewire drive and delete your data on the old drives with a zero out the disk initialization as single drives (not raid), shutting down, swap drives, reboot from the firewire drive, set up the new raid, and trnasfer your OS and data to the new raid. Whew, what a hassle! It tired me out just thinking about it! 
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