Recent content by zootielolo

So I ended up doing what john4200 suggested, but my drive performance seems to have suffered dramatically. I rebuilt the drives into two separate raid5 arrays, then I created a spanned disk out of them in partdisk. However, when i transferred my files back to the array, the maximum write speed...

You are correct, I was wanting to combine the 4 1tb drives with the 4 2 tb drives in a single raid. I was wanting to do this because of the economies of scale you get from using a larger number of drives in a single raid6 rather than the two separate arrays. Would it be possible to combine the 4...

So i have lurked here for a while and finally had a question I couldn't find with a search. I recently switched from a LSI 9650se controller to a LSI 9750 and a HP sas expander. My previous array was (4) 1 tb drives in raid 5. I was running low on space, so I decided to increase my capacity and...