From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4LMcP4u001271 for ; Sat, 21 May 2011 18:38:25 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4LMcODu028388 for ; Sat, 21 May 2011 18:38:24 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F6620AA2 for ; Sat, 21 May 2011 18:38:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1306017503.3487.1454529429@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: "Lee Gold" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 15:38:23 -0700 Subject: [linux-lvm] LVM - Combining different hard drives with different specs ? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi, I have a 100GB IDE HD that will fill up soon. I have a 1TB SATA drive I want to add. I am using Ubuntu Server 10.04, I installed the existing 100GB drive using LVM, only a single initial HD. I aim to increase my storage capacity under the server's document root /var/www... Before I get started hopefully asking intelligent questions and giving the needed information to help you help me, I wanted to ask this initial question: These two drives are different, they surely have different performance. Will this be a problem? If it was RAID I think matching drives are needed. I just want to add storage capacity with acceptable performance for a local in-house server. Thanks, Lee G. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class