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Marvellus
Jun 16, 2012Aspirant
Adding an other HDD in RAID 5 on Pro Pioneer
I want to create a RAID 5 with 5 x 2 TB HDDs and add another 2TB later as the 6th HDD has failed and while waiting for a replacement, want to configure the NAS with this RAID. Is it possible to expan...
StephenB
Jun 16, 2012Guru - Experienced User
XRAID2 is still what you want (with 5 disks installed). You won't get dual-redundancy unless you specify that when you insert the 6th disk later.
Marvellus wrote: .I had it on XRAID2 before but don't need the dual redundancy since it will only be used to back do daily bakcups on the main Pro 6 which is on XRAID2 with 6 x 3TB HDDs.
Thanks.
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