Hello all,
I have a raid 5 array I build for a HTPC/server with aIntel® RAID Controller SRCSASBB8I. Running windows7 64bit.
Never had one issue glad to say except now I am runing out of storage space. I have 6,1TB Drives that yields around 4.8 TB of usable storage.
I thought I could simply connect another drive to the card, scan for it with the web console utility and add it. But the drive doesn't populate,show up in the console.
My questions,
1. It is a new drive I am adding. I didn't format it first. Maybe this needs to be done? It's the same exact drive model as all the others.
2. Is there any risk of corrupting the existing data on the current array when adding additional drives to increase the storage size?
3. In order to be able to do this was I suppose to configure the array a special way when I first initialized the virtual disk?
If it's best to back up all my data deleted the array and start all over because I didn't configure something to be able to add drives like this then so be it. I will do. I just would love to learn what it is that's needed so I don't find myself doing this again.
Thanks in advance for any and all help!!!