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Title: Question: Moving from Raid5 to Single volume
Post by: carchey on February 01, 2009, 03:11:11 PM
   

I'm upgrading my HS-DHTGL/R5 Teraserver from 4 x 500gb (1.3 TB actual) Raid 5 to 4 x 1 TB drives. I don't need raid5 for redundancy of the drives and would like to see all the disks as a single volume/drive. After backing up the data off the current drives, and removing the raid5 setting, what setting do I use before I start swapping in the new drives?

 

Is this the proper procedure?

Title: Re: Question: Moving from Raid5 to Single volume
Post by: Paul on February 02, 2009, 10:05:17 AM

I would swap one drive at a time then restructure the Raid.  After all drives are swapped you can delete the Raid and rebuild it to use all of your new space.

 

 

Title: Re: Question: Moving from Raid5 to Single volume
Post by: carchey on February 03, 2009, 11:17:49 PM
   So which raid setting will make the 4 disks look like a single volume?
Title: Re: Question: Moving from Raid5 to Single volume
Post by: Colin137 on February 11, 2009, 06:40:13 PM
RAID0 or Spanning. Sorry about the late reply.
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