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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Subject: Re: status of raid 4/5 disk reduce
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:43:06 +0000
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On 11/12/2008 04:30, David Lethe wrote:
[...]
> If you want to copy 4x120 into 3x500 ... mount all the disks and COPY
> the data.  If you are truly limited to 4 disks, and are too cheap to
> spend $10-20 for another controller, after buying 1.5TB worth of disk
> drives, then you really need to get your priorities in order.

But my 1U server only physically has room for 4 drives. It doesn't 
matter how many extra controllers I buy, I can't attach more drives.

Cheers,

John.