building RAID5

[tale]

Hi,

I have a RAID5 using 6 x 500GBs on an 8-port SATA RAID card; thus, i have 2 open ports on RAID card. Now, I want to use all 8 ports.

My question is, can i use 2 x 1TB drives for the 2 open ports? So my RAID will consist of: 6 x 500GB disks, 2x 1TB disks...total of 8 disks for total space of 8x 500gb = 4TB. Is this possible for RAID5?

 

[alan2308]

This depends on your controller. To simply add the drives to an existing array, the controller has to support it, and of course you'll only be able use 500GB of the drives.