Hardware Installation
PixelStor 5000 User Manual
Rev. 1, May 2013
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Figure 4-22 Convert Orphan Disk to Spare
Expanding a Disk Group
The ability to expand a Disk Group depends upon the number of drives and the type of RAID
used in the Disk Group and having enough spare drives to complete the expansion. Expanding
Disk Groups follows the same rules for each RAID type as when you created the Disk Group
(See Table 4-1 Disk Group Parameters ).
When expanding a RAID 5 DG, the expansion set will be appended to the original
set and the total size adjusted accordingly. The striping of the original RAID 5 set
will not be re-arranged.