User Guide

Source RAID
Level
Target RAID
Level
Number of
Physical Disks
(Beginning)
Number of
Physical Disks
(End)
Capacity
Expansion
Possible
Description
RAID 1 RAID 0 2 2 or more Yes Removes
redundancy
while increasing
capacity.
RAID 1 RAID 5 2 3 or more Yes Maintains
redundancy
while doubling
capacity.
RAID 1 RAID 6 2 4 or more Yes Two disks
required to be
added for
distributed
parity data.
RAID 5 RAID 0 3 or more 3 or more Yes Converts to a
non-redundant
virtual disk and
reclaims disk
space used for
distributed
parity data.
RAID 5 RAID 5 3 or more 4 or more Yes Increases
capacity by
adding disks
RAID 5 RAID 6 3 or more 4 or more Yes At least one
disk needs to
be added for
dual distributed
parity data.
RAID 6 RAID 0 4 or more 4 or more Yes Converts to a
non-redundant
virtual disk and
reclaims disk
space used for
distributed
parity data.
RAID 6 RAID 5 4 or more 4 or more Yes Removes one
set of parity
data and
reclaims disk
space used for
it.
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