Hi All,
I've got a 5200Pro that I originally installed with 3x1Tb Hitachi drives and worked perfectly.
I then got close to running out of space, so have now purchased another 2 x 1Tb Hitachi drives that are identical to the original 3.
I wished to add the drives and expand the RAID5 set to now use all 5 drives as a single RAID 5 volume, but I can't see how to do it.
Is the EXPAND function only for replacing smaller drives to larger ones ? In my case only allowing to go from 3 drives (original RAID5 config) ?
Am I missing something here, or is it simply not possible to expand to all 5 drives without first copying off all the data (I have nowhere to put it all though), then deleting the array and recreating a new one with all 5 drives selected ?
Any help/advice would be appreciated.
Kindest Regards
Geraint