How to Add More Drives to an Existing RAID 5 Without Losing Data. Controller, NAS, Linux
Channel: Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows
Date: 2023-01-31

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Watch this video to find out how to add a new drive and expand an existing RAID array without losing data. In this video, I’m going to show you how to expand a hardware RAID built on a controller or NAS, and how to expand a software RAID - in a Linux operating system.
When a RAID runs out of free space, it is time to consider available options to expand your storage. 
It means adding more drives to the array, if such option is supported by the server’s hardware; otherwise, you can rebuild the array with drives of larger capacity. 
If your server has a free slot for another HDD, then you can expand the existing RAID system without losing any data at all. In a minute, we’ll explore how to add a hard disk to an array based on a controller, or built on a NAS storage system (with the example of a Qnap unit), how to do it on a software Linux-based RAID created with the help of MDADM and LVM utilities, or on the array created with the means of BTRFS file system. 

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📚 Content: 
00:00 – Intro 
01:37 - How to expand and existing RAID 5 based on a controller
03:33 - How to expand RAID5 in a NAS storage device
05:20 - How to expand MDRAID
08:06 - How to expand a software LVMRAID
10:02 - How to expand btrfsRAID

Playlist: RAID Systems: Definition, Types, How to Create One and Recover Lost Data - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfvrWYvsWiJznrhRlxOKYd40Z1sOP2Vf

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