Yes... You can make hot disks happen. Do you mean without adding any data?

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-----Original Message----- From: Suresh Rajagopalan [mailto:SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:46 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Aggregate expansion

Is there any difference between creating an aggregate on a certain number of disks (say n) , and then later expanding the aggregate to N disks, as opposed to creating the initial aggregate on N disks?

Suresh