Adding drives, what to do next

Our XServe RAID currently has in service (4) 250GB drives in RAID 5 on channel 1 for a total of 750GB usable space. We just purchased (4) 750GB drives and installed and formatted them for 2.1TB of usable space on channel 2.
I would like to use all of the drives as 1 single volume but I cannot seem to comprehend what the disadvantages will be. From my pea sized brain, I believe that I would have to softraid the two larger raids together which would be a performance hit. Will I also lose alot of disk space using that method.
Is it best just to have 2 seperate volumes and keep them as RAID 5.
Your expertise is most appeciable. TIA.
Paul

I would like to use all of the drives as 1 single volume but I cannot seem to comprehend what the disadvantages will be. From my pea sized brain, I believe that I would have to softraid the two larger raids together which would be a performance hit. Will I also lose alot of disk space using that method.
You are correct that you need to software-RAID the two volumes together, however, this would normally increase performance, not decrease performance.
That's because the overhead of running the software raid (which is not much) is far outweighed by the increased performance of two fiber channel connections to twice as many drives.
You will, however, lose disk space. Normally when combining multiple volumes in a RAID set, each volume needs to be the same size. If there is a difference in size, the smaller size is used as the basis for the array, and any additional space on the other volumes is lost.
Therefore, in this case since you have one array with 750GB usable, and one array with 2.1TB usable, the 2.1TB usable space will be treated as a 750GB volume for purposes of the array and you will lose the additional 1.3TB of space - not an ideal situation, by far.
There are a couple of solutions to this, but none are perfect. You might be better off treating the 750GB drives as one array and the existing 250GB drives as another, and not try to combine them at all.

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… so, why is the 'location' of your files on any relevance for your Projects ??
Or, do you want to re-import done-Projects as 'Events'? Export,Import, done… (??)
… sorry, maybe I'm just lost intranslation

I have just installed CS6 Master collection but indesign isn't working, when opening I get the message "Cannot load Assignment UI.InDesign because it requires Username. Please install the Username plugin and restart InDesign." not sure what to do next?

I have successfully installed the CS6 master collection and all the programs seem to be working apart from InDesign. When opening it I get the message "Cannot load Assignment UI.InDesign because it requires Username. Please install the Username plugin and restart InDesign.". I have no idea what to do next?

Many people use a font manager to organize a large collection of fonts, and sometimes these cause problems in ID. You might not realize that the font manager has installed a plugin in ID, but I think you would know if you added any other program extensions to help you work.
Can you show us a new crash report since the 8.0.2 update?
What happens if you start the Mac with the Shift key held down to prevent extensions from loading? What happens if you go to the System settings and create a new user, then restart the Mac and log in with the new user?

I rented to HD movies on Apple TV, biuth at the same time. I was able to watch one, butb the second says - error while laoding this content, try later - well I tried later numerous times and continuemto get same message. what is my next step??

I rented two HD movies on Apple TV, both at the same time. I was able to watch one, but the second says - "error while loading this content, try later" - well I tried later numerous times and continue to get the same message. What is my next step??

No, the film will be available for 30 days, but once you start watching it the clock will start running and it will expire after 24/48hrs (depending on location).
You said you rented on Apple TV, which has no accessible storage. When you choose to watch it starts to cache to the small flash drive, which is then flushed when you access another movie (or any other content). Everything is streamed so it will need to load each time. If you want to store any content you need to do so via computer.
Network issues can also contribute to seeing such an error. If on wifi, try ethernet. Make sure DNS is set to auto (settings - general - network). You can also see the status of your network by getting a report (istumbler, netstumbler or similar), to look for signal strength, noise, nearby networks.
Other services use adaptive streaming so they won't be much of an issue.

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