Hi:
I have a Thecus 4100+ with a 4 disk raid 5, but am running low on space. I'd like to incrementally upgrade my disks. BUT, there are issues. For one thing, I don't have a simple way to back everything up. I may have to use DVDs and with 700+ GB of stuff, I'd like to avoid that.
What I'd like to be able to do is replace the disks, one disk at a time, increasing the space. But, with raid 5, that may not be possible. I don't know. Can anyone help with this? Suggestions would be great.
I have 4 disks 250GB each. I'd like to replace them, one at a time, with larger disks - say 1 TB disks.
Along these lines, what is really possible with RAID 5 and disk changes? What happens when you pull a 250GB disk out and put in a 500GB disk as a replacement? Can 4 different size disks be used to create a raid 5? How does that work? Does the raid array just use the lowest drive size as the size for all disks in the array? Can anyone post some RAID 5/6 overview info?
KFF