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How to increase the capacity of your RAID 5 setup

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Hello everybody,

Im looking to build a NAS for my media files. Having said that I like to get some ideas in terms of how to keep up with the storage demands as times goes.

question:
How to grow my Hardware capacity in my NAS as time goes and as price of a hard drive drops.

Example:
- RAID 5 with 3 hard drives. Based on my internet research, RAID 5 is strong as the smallest hard drive. Having said that lets add a couple of hard drives to the example: 1.5tb, 1.5tb and 1.5tb.

Ebay just dropped there price on 4tb hard drive. How do I go about increasing the capacity of my NAS storage,what are my options?

Side note, Looking to use FreeNAS.

Any suggestions you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

R

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almost all RAID 5 arrays will have to be broken and re-created to change capacity or add / remove disks.

DROBO external NAS's are about the only consumer level devices that can change capacity on the fly without having to distroy (loose data) and create again
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