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jfrankel43   11-14-2007 at 07:46:35 PM

Please forgive this newbie question:

Infrant's ReadyNAS boasts about being able to add disks dynamically to their RAID 5. They call this "X RAID", and it is a very attractive feature to me, although their NV+ doesn't have the best performance stats.

Is the ability to add disks to a RAID 5 without rebuilding it from scratch a feature that Infrant has a monopoly on? Or is this something that can be done with every RAID 5?

Thanks
Josh

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chookman   11-14-2007 at 11:54:03 PM
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Depends on the controller, some onboard wont do it. Majority of dedicated cards that support RAID-5 will. Just depends.

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