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Initial RAID 5 Configuration for Later RAID 6 Expansion
I’m an “aspirant,” not a guru. I just received a ReadyNAS RN628X, which will become the main NAS with my 7-year-old Ultra 6 Plus as backup. After installing 6+ drives of mixed capacity in the 628, I ...
Aborted the attempt to answer my own questions:
Re: A. above.
With six disks, the only array to reshape automatically to raid6 was md127–/dev/md/data-0. There was enough drive quantity/capacity for other arrays to reshape as raid6, but they did not do it automatically prior to the abort.
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