Situation I have 1 HDD with data on it, and two new, empty HDDs. All 3 disks have the same size (10TB). Data: SDC New: SDE New: SDF I want to go for a RAID5 using all 3 HDDs, without losing data. For this to work, the idea is to: Read more…
I have a RAID5 consisting of three 10TB HDDs. This RAID5 has a total capacity of 20 TB. I bought a new 10 TB HDD that I want to use to extend the RAID5: 4 HDDs with a total capacity of 30 TB. The file system on md0 is ext4. Read more…
Scenario The HDDs are in an external USB case. RAID5 with 3 HDD (10TB) Software RAID5 with mdadm and Debian Linux Adding a new disk When you add a new HDD to an existing RAID, a sync is started. In my case I added a 10TB disk to a RAID5. Read more…