hard drive upgrade (replace existing)

mikkitobi wrote:

btaroli wrote: To get the extra benefits, you would have to perform a FACTORY RESET (completely wiping and re-creating the X-RAID volume, and requiring you to restore your data) in order to accomplish that. Having now expanded once with a new firmware installed, is my new X-RAID volume still 'old style' and further expansion will also be offline? Or has this expansion process converted me to the latest firmware/volume type?

I would just tell you to re-read what I typed before. The expansion process, in preserving data, also preserves everything else about the X-RAID and volume. If you wanted to stave off the need for even more offline time the /next/ time you do this, you still need to perform a factory reset, thereby completely re-creating the X-RAID stripe and formatting the volume (/c) with all the "new" (in late 2007) features.

I could see that one might simply say "well, no biggie, I'll just worry about it later" and that's fine. But online expansion will still elude you until you take this extra step -- including restoring all the data afteward.