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Hi All, I'm a newb to SR with little technical knowledge but have used large amounts of storage (for my video/photo business around 160 T's with back up) for many years. On one of my systems I'm currently running a RAID 5 backup on a RAID 0 server. This is causing a number of problems because one has 48T of space the other 42 so the backup fills up faster causing a jam. I want to switch the RAID 5 backup to a RAID 0. I have run SoftRAID Lite on the drive system and validated it. How do I convert it from RAID 5 to RAID 0? Thanks.
Posted : 05/01/2017 7:13 am
Sorry, we cannot convert a RAID 5 to any other volume type.
A RAID 4 can be converted to RAID 0, but that is by removing a disk, not to increase the size.
You will have to delete the volume, then recreate it as a RAID 0.
What if you reversed your process? Use the RAID 5 for primary data, then back up to the RAID 0? It means you have somewhat less space for data, so more archiving, but it will eliminate the backup hassles.
Posted : 06/01/2017 4:08 pm
