Adding disk to RAID 5 - SoftRAID Volumes https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:50:07 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Adding disk to RAID 5 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/#post-14821 Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:35:43 +0000 @facupuig 

No, we cannot add a disk to a volume to increase its size. (i.e, make a 3 disk RAID 5 a 4 disk RAID 5)

You can replace disks, yes.

You may be thinking of Drobo, which lets you do "anything", but there is an added cost in stability.

]]> SoftRAID Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/#post-14821 RE: Adding disk to RAID 5 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/#post-14820 Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:56:40 +0000 Are you for real? is that a bug?

I'm pretty sure that I have read in the website that you can add disks to a volume!

What if I need to replace a disk?

 

]]> SoftRAID Volumes facupuig https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/#post-14820 RE: Adding disk to RAID 5 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/#post-14815 Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:16:40 +0000 Only way is delete the volume and create a new one.

]]> SoftRAID Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/#post-14815 Adding disk to RAID 5 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-disk-to-raid-5/#post-14814 Sat, 26 Feb 2022 15:16:28 +0000 Hello I have a 4M2 with 3 2TB SSD, I got a 4th disk and I want to add that to the volume.
I can't find a way to do it, and some posts in the forum said different things so I need to confirm how to do this.
I'm running macOS 12.2.1 in a M1 Mac Mini. I have SoftRaid 6.2.1 thank you in advance 

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