Hi,
I have a Rackmount with a LSI-9011-8i. Now I have 2x8TB drives (one of these full) and I'm planning to buy another 4 of these drives (WD80EFAX) to build a RAID-5 with mdadm. (Now the 2 drives are NOT in RAID)
If I create a RAID-5 with the new 4x8TB drives, how long will it take to grow, if I want to add a new drive to the array? Is it possible?
After creating the RAID-5 with the new 4x8TB drives and after copying data from the old 2 drives into the array, I will remain with the old 2x8TB unused, so I wonder if they can be added to the new raid.
I have a Rackmount with a LSI-9011-8i. Now I have 2x8TB drives (one of these full) and I'm planning to buy another 4 of these drives (WD80EFAX) to build a RAID-5 with mdadm. (Now the 2 drives are NOT in RAID)
If I create a RAID-5 with the new 4x8TB drives, how long will it take to grow, if I want to add a new drive to the array? Is it possible?
After creating the RAID-5 with the new 4x8TB drives and after copying data from the old 2 drives into the array, I will remain with the old 2x8TB unused, so I wonder if they can be added to the new raid.
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