Good evening, all.
I have a quick question. My current setup is a 2x2TB RAID1 array and a 2x1TB RAID1 array. That's been working beautifully so far, but I've since run out of space on the 2TB and realized that I would actually benefit more from the space than RAID1-ing the 2TB disks (my important stuff I can actually fit on the 1TB volume).
Poor planning, I know. I pretty much want to go from the 2x2TB RAID1 to 1x2TB and 1x2TB normal disk volumes. Is there an easy way to do that? I did not see any way to do that without losing all the content; even thought it's not that important, I'd rather not go through the process of copying from one drive to another, etc. Plus, I wouldn't have the space to copy everything over to the other volume anyway.
I had considered the following:
Any input is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!
I have a quick question. My current setup is a 2x2TB RAID1 array and a 2x1TB RAID1 array. That's been working beautifully so far, but I've since run out of space on the 2TB and realized that I would actually benefit more from the space than RAID1-ing the 2TB disks (my important stuff I can actually fit on the 1TB volume).
Poor planning, I know. I pretty much want to go from the 2x2TB RAID1 to 1x2TB and 1x2TB normal disk volumes. Is there an easy way to do that? I did not see any way to do that without losing all the content; even thought it's not that important, I'd rather not go through the process of copying from one drive to another, etc. Plus, I wouldn't have the space to copy everything over to the other volume anyway.
I had considered the following:
- Pull one of the 2TB drives and let it run in gimped mode
- Assuming everything runs well, format the pulled 2TB drive and copy everything over
- Trash the original volume and rebuild all the shares/paths using the new disks
- Repurpose old disk so there's 4TB of total space in the volume
Any input is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!