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                        <title>Adding Drives to an enclosure at a later date</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-drives-to-an-enclosure-at-a-later-date/#post-2326</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[SoftRAID does not enable adding disks to a RAID volume to increase capacity. Sorry.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[SoftRAID does not enable adding disks to a RAID volume to increase capacity. Sorry.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/">SoftRAID Volumes</category>                        <dc:creator>SoftRAID Support</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Adding Drives to an enclosure at a later date</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/adding-drives-to-an-enclosure-at-a-later-date/#post-413</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I have an eight bay enclosure that I want to use on my Mac Pro connected via dual eSATA cables.  Because I don&#039;t have the money to fill the enclosure with drives , I want to start with four,...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have an eight bay enclosure that I want to use on my Mac Pro connected via dual eSATA cables.  Because I don't have the money to fill the enclosure with drives , I want to start with four, 4TB drives in the enclosure to be used in a RAID 5 configuration.

My question is can I add additional 4TB drives to the enclosure in the future to increase the RAID volume capacity or do I need to fully populate the enclosure when I create the RAID volume?  If it is  possible to add drives how hard is it to merge additional drives?

Thanks for the help.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/">SoftRAID Volumes</category>                        <dc:creator>Hillhippy</dc:creator>
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