[lug] re: adding a device to existing RAID 0

Jeffrey Siegal jbs at quiotix.com
Thu Aug 5 15:24:45 MDT 2004


Brian Stiff wrote:
> Unless I'm completely mistaken, you'd have to somehow
> convert your existing RAID 0 to RAID 5.  RAID 0 only
> allows mirroring two devices.

You're confusing RAID 0 and RAID 1.  RAID 0 is striping, not mirroring.

Your answer was correct though.  It isn't possible to incrementally add 
another drive to a RAID 0 array; you'd have to rebuild the whole array.




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