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z3non
Feb 26, 2018Aspirant
Mixing disks of different sizes & multiple volumes
Hi all, in a test setup I have the following disks: disk1: 320G, disk2: 500G, disk3: 1000G these three are in a flex-raid raid5 (3x320G). According to the knowledge base (see [1]) i...
- Feb 27, 2018
Actually, it does not say what you claim it does. You are trying to mix different RAID modes, which the example does not do. But most importantly, check the units it is applicable to, which are all legacy systems running OS 4.2.x, which you are not.
The only way you can utilize all of your drive space is to have each drive as a separate JBOD volume. Your best bet is to ditch the 320GB for a 1TB, and you can then use all of the space with a single XRAID volume.
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