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You can remove one drive at a time and let them rebuild onto the drives, one at a time. &nbsp;BUT, you're not going to expand the RAID that way. &nbsp;You'll have 6x110GB of unallocated space you can create another RAID for. &nbsp;If you want to make this a 6x148GB RAID set, you have to backup everything and then replace the drives and restore data.
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You can remove one drive at a time and let them rebuild onto the drives, one at a time.  BUT, you're not going to expand the RAID that way.  You'll have 6x110GB of unallocated space you can create another RAID for.  If you want to make this a 6x148GB RAID set, you have to backup everything and then replace the drives and restore data.

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If I remove all of the 36gb drives can I expand the 148s with out destory data? 
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If I remove all of the 36gb drives can I expand the 148s with out destory data?

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I have a RAID 5 with 6 drives at 38gb and 6 new drives at 148gb running on a netware 6 server Is there a way to remove the 36gb drives from the stripe set and then expand into the 148s? &nbsp;
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I have a RAID 5 with 6 drives at 38gb and 6 new drives at 148gb running on a netware 6 server Is there a way to remove the 36gb drives from the stripe set and then expand into the 148s?  

Remove smaller drives from RAID 5 so that larger drives take over

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