Can drives be of different capacity?
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kherr4377
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Re: Can drives be of different capacity?
they can be different, but you won't be able to use the extra space till all drives are 1TB and expand the volume(simplified, other steps). the raid will treat the drives as if they are the size of the lowest capacity one.
Production :
TVS-673 4.3.4 0387
4 X 3TB WD RED : 1 X 4TB HGST DESKSTAR R5
32GB
LAN-10G1SR-D, FiberHal for Cisco SFP-10G-SR
NETGEAR ProSAFE SS3300-28X
Backup :
TS-469L 4.3.4 0387
4 X 3TB WD RED R5
3GB
Located detached garage .. cheap offsite solution ...
2nd TS-469L awaiting drives and reassignment for front-line duty .......
TVS-673 4.3.4 0387
4 X 3TB WD RED : 1 X 4TB HGST DESKSTAR R5
32GB
LAN-10G1SR-D, FiberHal for Cisco SFP-10G-SR
NETGEAR ProSAFE SS3300-28X
Backup :
TS-469L 4.3.4 0387
4 X 3TB WD RED R5
3GB
Located detached garage .. cheap offsite solution ...
2nd TS-469L awaiting drives and reassignment for front-line duty .......
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OneCD
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Re: Can drives be of different capacity?
Yes, if you're using RAID 5 - replace those 2 x 500GB with 2 x 1TB drives.TECH1982 wrote:(1. replace both 500Gig's with 1TB, and format as 1TB, just don't use extra space (its backed up)..
If I understand your config, you'll then have 4 x 1TB drives installed. That should give you about 2.7TiB of storage space (after RAID expansion).
