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The logical drive will now have a new last partition the same size as the expansion. Look at the View
and Edit LD Partition Table to verify this.
8.2.4 Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion
8.2.4.1
What Is It and How Does It Work?
Before Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion, increasing the capacity of a RAID system using traditional
methods meant backing up, re-creating and then restoring. Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion allows
users to add new hard disk drives and expand a RAID 0, 3 or 5 Logical Drive without powering down
the system.
8.2.4.2
Two Modes of Dynamic LD Expansion
There are two modes of Dynamic Logical Drive Expansion.
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