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                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/permanently-removing-a-disk/#post-1836</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[A RAID 4/5 volume is &quot;permanent&quot; in the number of disks in the volume. You cannot remove one disk and have any redundancy.

To change a 4 disk RAID 5 to a 3 disk RAID 5 will require backup...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[A RAID 4/5 volume is "permanent" in the number of disks in the volume. You cannot remove one disk and have any redundancy.

To change a 4 disk RAID 5 to a 3 disk RAID 5 will require backup, delete, create a new volume.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/">Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize</category>                        <dc:creator>SoftRAID Support</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Permanently Removing a disk</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/permanently-removing-a-disk/#post-279</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I have a 4x 3TB disks and now have 3x 2TB volumes, Raid 5.

I would like to remove one of the disks from the Raid array so that I can use it separately as an encrypted TimeMachine disk.  T...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a 4x 3TB disks and now have 3x 2TB volumes, Raid 5.

I would like to remove one of the disks from the Raid array so that I can use it separately as an encrypted TimeMachine disk.  This will leave me with 9TB in a 3 disk Raid 5 array which should provide sufficient storage for 3x 2TB volumes.

I tried removing one of the disks from one of the volumes, but I get a degraded notice and a lot of warnings.  SoftRaid does not look happy.

What is the correct procedure for removing the disk from each volume while maintaining integrity?]]></content:encoded>
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