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Suggestion for x-raid3
This is a suggestion for a hopefully smarter utilization of disks-arrays of disks of different sizes. Say that I have 3 disks of 1 TB each. I buy a 3 TB disk and put it into the empty slot, after s...
Again note that X-RAID is expandable, but to expand you must install disks that are the same size or larger than those already installed
Therefore if you started with 3 x 1TB disks, adding the 500GB drive would not expand the array as it would require a complete restructuring of how the data is arranged across the array. But if you first installed the 500GB disk and then the 3 x 1TB, yes you would get what you describe as expansion is via adding the additional "stripe" and doesn't require the existing data to be touched.
Therefore if you started with 3 x 1TB disks, adding the 500GB drive would not expand the array as it would require a complete restructuring of how the data is arranged across the array. But if you first installed the 500GB disk and then the 3 x 1TB, yes you would get what you describe as expansion is via adding the additional "stripe" and doesn't require the existing data to be touched.
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