[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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