NAS

>>56530525
You can always copy the contents to the new array, you know that right?

>>56530543
I sure do. But ideally I wouldn't have to wait for the ±4TB to go from one side to the other. They would already be there.

The idea is to pick 1 of the 2x4TB (RAID 1) and place it on a 4x4TB (RAID 5). Would that work?

>>56530569
>Would that work?
No.

Sorry but you will have to copy the data.

>>56530544
>>56530592

How would you do this?
I want to avoid having 1 perfectly good 4TB drive being unused...

>>56530610
upload it all to OneDrive then copy it back to your newly made raid

>>56530592

> buy 2x 4TB drives
> format 1 one of the already existing 4TB drives
> insert the 3 drives in the NAS
> make a RAID 5 (8TB)
> copy all the data to the new array
> format the remaining drive
> add the formatted drive to the array (12TB)

I'm unsure about the last step, would that work? Can I add a new drive to an already existing array?

>>56530627
Not enough space/time

>>56530657
raid considered obsolete anyway, just use LVM spans

>>56530672
I'm not on Linux btw

>>56530710
Windows has spanned volumes as well
OS X has them

If you're using anything else it probably supports it and if not probably doesn't support raid either

>>56530672
It's only obselete to the autists who can change their filesystems every week. For the normal user, RAID works good enough and is easy as balls to set up.

>>56530848
For this usage, it's obsolete.

RAID5 isn't a good consumer technology. You're much better off deploying LVM techs.