Change array from raid 1 to raid 5

[Hosein Nahidian]

hello,

have an ML330 using the 641 controller with two 72GB drive in raid 1. They are out of space and I need to add additional drives. Want to break the mirror, add the 2 additional drive and create a raid5 array with the 3 drives leaving the first drive from the mirror intack. Anyone done this before? can this be done without data loss?

[Mauro Rusignuolo]

no way to "break" the mirror in the way you desire.

you can arrive at the same ending point from different ways.

let me know if you are interested.

bye.

TJK.

[Hosein Nahidian]

What are my options?

[Mauro Rusignuolo]

one of this is to use the "on-line-level-migration" feature of your controller to migrate from raid 1 to raid 5.

after of that yu can create your own "disk clone".

bye.

TJK.

[Mauro Rusignuolo]

not satisfied?

bye.

TJK.

[Hosein Nahidian]

Will this format the drives?

[Mauro Rusignuolo]

no.
but completely rewritten.

bye

TJK

[Mauro Rusignuolo]

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