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									Use RAID 0 Volume as Component of RAID 5 - Creating Volumes				            </title>
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                        <title>Use RAID 0 Volume as Component of RAID 5</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/use-raid-0-volume-as-component-of-raid-5/#post-1861</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[We do not support layering RAID volumes like this. A SoftRAID volume is comprised of identical sized partitions on different disks. Better is to get a 4th 4TB drive.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[We do not support layering RAID volumes like this. A SoftRAID volume is comprised of identical sized partitions on different disks. Better is to get a 4th 4TB drive.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/">Creating Volumes</category>                        <dc:creator>SoftRAID Support</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Use RAID 0 Volume as Component of RAID 5</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/use-raid-0-volume-as-component-of-raid-5/#post-283</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I have the following hardware:
4TB drive x 3
2TB drive x 2

I&#039;d like to combine the two 2TB drives into a single RAID 0 volume, and then use this as a component with the other 3 4TB volu...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have the following hardware:
4TB drive x 3
2TB drive x 2

I'd like to combine the two 2TB drives into a single RAID 0 volume, and then use this as a component with the other 3 4TB volumes to get a total of 12TB of RAID 5.

I creased a 4TB RAID 0 volume from my two smaller drives in SoftRAID.  But, when I go to create the RAID5 volume, I don't see the option to include this as one of my components.

Is this feature possible using SoftRAID?  Or, is there some other procedure with SoftRAID that I could follow to enable me to get 12TB of RAID 5 given these disks?

Thanks]]></content:encoded>
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