Extending a RAID5 Volume with new drives - SoftRAID Features https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:11:25 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Extending a RAID5 Volume with new drives https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/#post-16657 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:56:40 +0000 @thecodingart 

Understand. But it is also hard to justify adding a feature when it is not 100% rock solid. Look at the companies who have had problems with this, such as Drobo. Especially when we need to support "any" enclosures, it makes it more important to do it right.

]]> SoftRAID Features SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/#post-16657 RE: Extending a RAID5 Volume with new drives https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/#post-16654 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:33:33 +0000 It’s hard to justify the modularity of thunderbolt enclosures if we cannot actually add them easily..

]]> SoftRAID Features thecodingart https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/#post-16654 RE: Extending a RAID5 Volume with new drives https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/#post-16033 Sat, 25 Jun 2022 03:45:10 +0000 Sorry, we cannot add disks to an existing volume like that. Maybe someday

]]> SoftRAID Features SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/#post-16033 Extending a RAID5 Volume with new drives https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/extending-a-raid5-volume-with-new-drives/#post-16029 Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:45:32 +0000 Hi,

I have a Thunderbay 8 filled with 6TB drives. It's working fine with RAID5.

Now, I also have a Thunderbay 4 with empty 6TB drives. I'm wondering if there's a way to add those 4x6tb drives to the 8x6tb RAID5 volume. So that I can have a 12x6tb RAID5 volume. And most importantly, would that be possible to do that without formatting all the drives? Basically, I want to extend my Thunderbay8 without having to backup all the data.

Thanks in advance for advice.

 

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