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Re: How to add additional hard drive in RAID 5 without losing data?

 
jchernandez
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‎02-06-2006 12:51 PM

‎02-06-2006 12:51 PM

How to add additional hard drive in RAID 5 without losing data?

Is it possible to add additonal hard drive in a RAID 5 without lossing data?

I Have 4 hard drive in RAID 5, I want to add 2 more hard drive to my RAID 5. thanks
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Sivakumar TS
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‎02-06-2006 02:33 PM

‎02-06-2006 02:33 PM

Re: How to add additional hard drive in RAID 5 without losing data?

Hi,

Not all RAID controllers supports this feature. Let us know which is the RAID controller in the system / we have to check the specifications of the RAID controller.

Otherwise we have to take a full backup and recreate the RAID volume with 6 disks.

With Regards,

Siva.
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Shameer.V.A
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‎02-06-2006 03:28 PM

‎02-06-2006 03:28 PM

Re: How to add additional hard drive in RAID 5 without losing data?

Hi,
If your RAID COntroller supports capacity addition, you can do it. Remember to take a full backup for safety.

You can expand the array to new hdd. only limitation is new hdd capacity should be equal or higher of other hdds in the array. If you are using a higher capacity hdd , you will lose the balance space.

Please post the model of RAID controller.

Regards,

Shameer
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