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                        <title>not all drives used in volume</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/not-all-drives-used-in-volume/#post-1491</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[no. That is not RAID, it is called concatenation. We are not going to support concatenation, as there is no performance benefit, and if any disk fails all data on the volume is lost, so ther...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[no. That is not RAID, it is called concatenation. We are not going to support concatenation, as there is no performance benefit, and if any disk fails all data on the volume is lost, so there is not much benefit.

Apple supports this in Disk Utility, but we highly advise against using it.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>not all drives used in volume</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/not-all-drives-used-in-volume/#post-1490</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[You created a RAID 0 volume. The volume is limited in size to the smallest drive (or available free space).

You can create another 2TB volume on the 3TB drive.

But better is just creat...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote>
You created a RAID 0 volume. The volume is limited in size to the smallest drive (or available free space).

You can create another 2TB volume on the 3TB drive.

But better is just create a 3TB RAID 0 with the 3 1TB drives.
</blockquote>

Is there no way to combine the 3 1TB and the 3TB into a 6TB raid?]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/">SoftRAID Volumes</category>                        <dc:creator>jeffyoung</dc:creator>
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                        <title>not all drives used in volume</title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[is there no way to combine 3 1TB and a3TB into a 6TB raid?]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[is there no way to combine 3 1TB and a3TB into a 6TB raid?]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>not all drives used in volume</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/not-all-drives-used-in-volume/#post-1487</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[You created a RAID 0 volume. The volume is limited in size to the smallest drive (or available free space).

You can create another 2TB volume on the 3TB drive.

But better is just creat...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[You created a RAID 0 volume. The volume is limited in size to the smallest drive (or available free space).

You can create another 2TB volume on the 3TB drive.

But better is just create a 3TB RAID 0 with the 3 1TB drives.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>not all drives used in volume</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/not-all-drives-used-in-volume/#post-169</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I have created a softraid 1 volume using 3 1TB drives and one 3TB drive. My resulting volume is only 4TB......I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.
Please help.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have created a softraid 1 volume using 3 1TB drives and one 3TB drive. My resulting volume is only 4TB......I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.
Please help.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/">SoftRAID Volumes</category>                        <dc:creator>jeffyoung</dc:creator>
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