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Will adding a disk to an existing raid 5 array be supported one day?
The knowledge base says it may be developed in a future release, but a more recent forum topic suggests the feature will never see the light of day?
Posted : 29/04/2024 10:56 am
donkadoo and thecodingart reacted
This is not high on our radar.
Posted : 29/04/2024 11:54 am
@softraid-support why is this a low priority. Shouldn't expansions be... reasonably high from a capabilities perspective?
Posted : 09/11/2024 12:08 am
Its a lower priority because we have a few things to do first. Hopefully someday.
Posted : 09/11/2024 1:43 am
I find this so strange, I have the OWC 6-bay and if I want to go up to a 8bay I have to buy 8 new drives and transfer all material. Instead of reusing the 6 drives I already own. Just move the drives and add additional drives to size up. Everyone using softraid with large volumes have this issues. I don't get it how it can be a low priority. Its been a topic as long as I have used softraid. Hope that it really comes someday!
Posted : 17/09/2025 7:15 am
I understand. But expanding a volume by adding drives is not as simple as it looks, as it needs to support all types of hardware. Including unreliable hardware.
It is on our list of things, but it is not on active development for "next release", sorry.
Posted : 17/09/2025 2:04 pm
@softraid-support I understand that a lot of work came with the last years updates and thanks for answering, just wish that it is something that is remembered and worked on for the future because its ramping up costs for your customers. I have gone from 4-bay to 6-bay doing that sizeup, thinking that for next time the feature will be there. Hope it will in the future!
Posted : 19/09/2025 2:08 am
