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Please. How do you shrink a RAID 1. Moving to a SSD drive

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purvis:
Janet thanks, your info is well read.
Yes, I have not learned to put rpms in an ibay which is super good advice. I will next time.
I have the server I am wanting to shrink down and at my location.
I had installed SME 8 on a new machine and made some standard changes that I have noted in a history file.

I only use RAID 1.
Some years back, I made a decision to install only on smaller hard drives and then rebuild the RAID onto larger drives.
If I needed to grow the volume, I had that option, but I did not start with a small enough hard drive as I should had because I did not see SSD drives coming.
I do like the SSD drives in that they give better performance and where the data is not changing too rapid on the drives, hopefully they will see less failure.
Boot up times are nice but not the most important thing here.
I have more digging to do before I try to accomplish the goal of shrinking. Not fully understanding software RAID and RAID in general with manual manipulation does not help.
Thanks to the hard work of others. Working with RAID 1 on SME for me has been a dream come true.

Stephano, I did put SME 9 into a virtual machine and working with it. As you know, something that is working is very hard to move from.
   

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