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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...
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I have not received an answer on how to make my Raid 5 with a hot spare into a Raid 5 with no hot spare! I need to extra capacity.
Hello Mike10,
Please see the response I made on Apr 28. It has a hyperlink to a KB article.
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I read that link but it doesn't tell me how to stop using a spare disk and reset it to be used as part of the Raid 5. It only seems to talk about converting to Raid 6 which I don't want to do!
Mike
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