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The FAQ says, "Can you increase the capacity of a RAID 1+0 by adding drives? No. SoftRAID does not support expanding RAID 1+0 by adding drives. To...
(sorry, actually you do not need this work around to convert to a 6-drive RAID 1+0 since you can use the 3 new drives to create a RAID 0, copy the RAI...
So the final formula to determine the condition to be met if you can: 1. Convert a RAID 5 to a RAID 0 OR 2. Convert a RAID 5 to a RAID 0 AND remov...
The above is also a solution to being able to remove one drive from a RAID 5 to convert it to a RAID 0. AND/OR, once converted to a RAID 0, the Con...
"Can a RAID 5 be converted to RAID 0? No. SoftRAID does not support this conversion." Though SoftRAID cannot do this directly, it turns out this c...
For anyone that may want to know how math works for the maximum condition to convert a RAID 5 to a RAID 0, this is how: n = number of y drives. X...
Though SoftRAID cannot do this directly, there is a way to do this, if the following condition is met. In this case, if the data on the RAID 5 ≤ 7.2TB...
Re: "Can a RAID 1 be converted to a RAID 1+0? No. SoftRAID does not support converting a RAID 1 directly to RAID 1+0. Workaround: Create a RAI...
The FAQ says "Can a RAID 1+0 be converted to a RAID 1? No. SoftRAID does not support converting a RAID 1+0 to a RAID 1. Workaround: Convert th...
Based on the FAQ created, and so someone reading this thread does not get the wrong information, SoftRAID STILL does not support converting AppleRAID ...
That's great.
You say, "...any volumes with APFS, then you have those issues to deal with. But that is not your question!" It sort of is as well. IIRC, any boot ...
So just that I am clear and understand you, are you saying that the only thing that matters is the version of the SoftRAID driver the host OS is compa...
Correct. This was meant under the assumption that no other drives were available.
Without losing data, here is a strategy to consider, since you have lots of spare space in your RAID 0. 1. defragment your RAID 0, so all the files ...
