https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:39:15 +0000 wpForo 60 https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1325 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:08:19 +0000 Creating Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1325 https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1324 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 06:17:52 +0000 You can create as as many volumes as you like, just specify the size when you create a volume. Hope you also have a second backup strategy, backing up to the same disks is not really backup. ;-) Oh that's true. I am using OWC thunderbay 4. How about using 3 x 3TB for SoftRAID and get 1 x 4TB for Time Machine to back up data under SoftRAID? Hope this methods can work perfectly!]]> Creating Volumes dorjehau https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1324 https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1318 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:40:47 +0000 Creating Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1318 https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1317 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:54:53 +0000 Creating Volumes dorjehau https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1317 https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1314 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:04:39 +0000 Not at all. What you cannot do is take an existing volume and make a "larger" one from it. If you are creating a Mirror volume, you can create a second mirror volume with the new drives. If you want a single larger volume, like a RIAD 4/5/10, then you need to back up and create the larger volume. Noted. Thank you for your advice.]]> Creating Volumes dorjehau https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1314 https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1311 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:01:26 +0000 Creating Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-1311 https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-114 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:11:54 +0000 Creating Volumes dorjehau https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/using-2-existing-hdd-3tb/#post-114