Yesterday, 11:31 AM
Hello,
I currently have a Raid5 in my PC, its been running on 5x 6TB WDC WD80EFZX-68UW8N0 drives.
I finally hit the storage wall and without too much research, bought an additional 3x 6x TB drives WDC WD80EFPX-68C4ZN0 drives.
Only to discover, my Motherboard has 8 Sata ports, but only 6 can support the Raid. Furthermore, I attempted to just add 1 of the new drives, only to be told by the Intel RST software that the volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters support by the file system.
So i now have a delemar as you can imagine. At this stage I am thinking of backing up the data, and then re-building the raid into a NAS, but my concern is the Qnap TS-873A is somewhat 4+ years old now, and at $2.3k australian, seems a bit rough. Really hope you can provide some guidance on what the best ladder is to climb out of this mess. Further more the retail i bought the 3x HDD, has a terrible returns policy so now I'm stuck with them (1k
I currently have a Raid5 in my PC, its been running on 5x 6TB WDC WD80EFZX-68UW8N0 drives.
I finally hit the storage wall and without too much research, bought an additional 3x 6x TB drives WDC WD80EFPX-68C4ZN0 drives.
Only to discover, my Motherboard has 8 Sata ports, but only 6 can support the Raid. Furthermore, I attempted to just add 1 of the new drives, only to be told by the Intel RST software that the volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters support by the file system.
So i now have a delemar as you can imagine. At this stage I am thinking of backing up the data, and then re-building the raid into a NAS, but my concern is the Qnap TS-873A is somewhat 4+ years old now, and at $2.3k australian, seems a bit rough. Really hope you can provide some guidance on what the best ladder is to climb out of this mess. Further more the retail i bought the 3x HDD, has a terrible returns policy so now I'm stuck with them (1k