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From: Pierre Wieser <pwieser@trychlos.org>
Subject: Re: Migrating a RAID 5 from 4x2TB to 3x6TB ?
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 20:26:09 +0200 (CEST)
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----- Original Message -----
> I assume the motherboard you're using only has 4 sata ports?

Yes, the motherboard has 4 sata ports, and there is already a small external
sata controller. So my actual raid device has 5 disks (4+S). For the discussion,
I just omitted the spare device ;)

> On 8 June 2015 at 20:28, Pierre Wieser <pwieser@trychlos.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I currently have an almost full RAID 5 built with 4 x 2 TB disks.
> > I wonder if it would be possible to migrate it to a bigger RAID 5
> > with 3 x 6TB new disks.