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Expand Raid 5 to use the spare as space.
I have a ReadyNas 2120 v2 with 4 - 4TB disks. I am presently using the 4th disk as hot spare. When I click on the spare disk in the volume manager it offers to let me add parity to this disk. I assum...
Add parity would mean to convert your volume from RAID-5 to RAID-6. That wouldn't lead to volume expansion.
Is there any way to start using the spare disk to expand the capacity of the raid without having my data overwritten?
Hello Mike10,
First and foremost, always make sure you have backup of important data. It is a bad idea saving important data to just one storage.
Adding parity is safe for data. That action you are planning is moving from RAID 5 to RAID 6 which adds more protection to the data. Please see this article.
Regards,
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Hello Mike10,
You are currently on FlexRAID RAID 5? How many disks did you use initially when you created the volume?
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