| N3200 Expand/Replace
I have a N3200 Unit that I am looking to expand/replace drives on. Currently I am running 3 500GB drives in a raid 5 configuration. I am running out of space so I am looking to expand. What I have come up with so far is the following:
Buy 3 1 TB drives
Pull the third drive from the array and insert the new 1TB drive
Hopefully there is a way to keep this drive from rebuilding into the array
Then copy all data over to the 1TB drive.
Once this is complete remove the other 2 500GB drives and insert a two new 1TB drives the problem I am running into is that you need at least 3 drives to build a raid 5 system. Well my third drive will already have data on it and if it is added to an array I am pretty sure it will loose everything on there.
Is there any easier way to go about this?
Can I swap each drive one at a time and then expand the array on this system? I have read you can do something similar on other Thecus systems but have not seen anything in relation to the 3200.
Any help/advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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