raid5

Does anyone have experience repurposing a Drobo (5D3) with BTRFS RAID5? I have an old Drobo setup that has 5 2TB drives I'd like to set up so I can send snapshots to as an additional layer for my backups. Traditionally, this Drobo is a DAS and can be formatted with either NTFS via the Drobo...

So I have 3 nas units total. 2x DS1621+ and a Terramaster f5-221. The terramaster (5 bay, 5x 4tb) and DS1621+ (6 bay, 6x 4tb) have been in use for about a year. I just got a 3rd nas, a DS1621+ and 4x 4tb drives. Now I would like to use the 3rd nas as a backup for the other 2 units. I realize...

What I have: 3 x 6TB SHR Volume with 12 TB redundant storage (1 disk recently broken) What I want: 2 x 18TB SHR volume with 18 TB redundant storage (I'll expand the volume after the migration) Of course, I want to keep my volume and migrate everything, to avoid any additional work and downtime...

Hi, I'm looking forward for some advices on how to safely proceed to a disk upgrade of a cluster (SHA) of 2x 1513+ (5 bays) needed with 4 x 3Tb drives + 1 x 3tb Hotspare drive. The idea is to replace all 3Tb drives by 6Tb drives. Current setup: In resume : Storage Pool 1 (Main) is using 4...

Hi all, I would like to setup Sha but shr volume are not supported. Do you know the best method to migrate from shr2 to raid5 or raid ? Thanks a lot for your advices. Nicolas