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I purchased a LS-441 enclosure about a year ago, along with 2x4TB HDDs. I set it up as RAID0 (yes, I know the consequences), giving me 7+TB of space. Since then, I've also purchased a couple of 3TB external HDDs to use as a backup to the LS-441, as the amount of data has increased.

I've now been able to afford to buy two more 4TB HDDs (same model and size) to add to the NAS unit. However, I want to add these to the existing RAID0 setup, but can't see how to do it (if it's at all possible). I've downloaded the manual for the unit and it mentioning various examples of adding new drives, but I can't see how to add drives to an existing RAID0.

Apart from wiping the entire existing RAID0 array and starting again (and then recovering all my data back from the external backup drives), is there any other way of doing it?

Unfortunately this unit won't add drives to a RAID 0 array, only RAID 1 or 5.

Quote from: Texturtle on December 14, 2015, 03:28:47 PM
Unfortunately this unit won't add drives to a RAID 0 array, only RAID 1 or 5.

Thanks. I was suspecting that to be the case, but was sort of hoping I was wrong. I could set up the two new disks as a separate RAID array (which would avoid me having to delete and restore anything), but then I'd end up with two mapped drives and would eventually have to split the existing data across the two arrays in due course. I'd also have to remember what was where.

Looks like I may be testing out my backup HDDs after I wipe the existing 2 disk array after all.