Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? - Functionality Issues https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:44:45 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22281 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:17:57 +0000 Functionality Issues arckanum https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22281 RE: Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22280 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:56:55 +0000 @arckanum 

Yes you can, then "expand volume".

Make sure you have backups somewhere, data is "fragile".

]]> Functionality Issues SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22280 RE: Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22279 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:01:34 +0000 @softraid-support second follow up, could I expand the storage capacity by replacing the existing drives in a raid 5 with larger drives?

If I started with what I have with 3x14tb and 2x10tb, could I swap out the 10tb drives with 14tb drives? I don’t have the drives on hand to just have a giant back up, so it is a bit of a shell game.

]]> Functionality Issues arckanum https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22279 RE: Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22278 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:54:17 +0000 @arckanum 

It is on the road map. Its complex, as we do not control the hardware and such expansion has to be supported by unknown hardware, which is hard to do with 100% reliability.

]]> Functionality Issues SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22278 RE: Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22277 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:12:05 +0000 Is this on the roadmap? I'm on a Mac and came to SoftRAID as an option to manage data locally. Is this a limitation of being software-based?

]]> Functionality Issues arckanum https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22277 RE: Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22276 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:02:32 +0000 We do not support expanding RAID 5 volumes by adding disks, sorry. You will need to delete the volume, create a new one and restore from backups.

]]> Functionality Issues SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22276 Can you add a drive to a Raid 5 volume in SoftRAID? https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-functionality-issues/can-you-add-a-drive-to-a-raid-5-volume-in-softraid/#post-22275 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:58:05 +0000 Hey all, I am using a 5-bay enclosure as a DAS and mirroring it to a NAS. I would like to build a RAID 5 volume on the DAS with three 14TB disks, but I would like to add two additional 14 TB disks when money allows. Is this possible, similar to what I can do with the Synology NAS in adding drives? Or am I locked into what volume I can build now?

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