Re: XServe RAID upgrade to 750GB drives

Mine is a stand alone Xraid... 1st generation. 180 gb IDE drives.

I can not find any of the more robust "NS" IDE drives from Seagate, the best I have found is the 7200.10 series, 750gb. Any other thoughts on drives? I was sticking to these as they are the equivalent of the Apple drives, just not "blessed and flashed".

I figure I will pull all the 180's in one bank, carefully remove and store (after I back up the volume), then put in the 750's and format... put it into use and see what happens???

I have seen other threads where people have done this and they state everything is running fine.

I plan to insure myself by formating 6 drives and leaving the 7th as a hot spare, so if I get a failure early on it will re-build... also plan to have a second spare on standby (not hot).

I am running Raid Admin 1.5.1, so in theory, I should not have trouble recognizing the drives.

Any other ideas / cautions / thoughts?