I was considering the same thing (but with 250GB drives)
and instead decided to start with 5*250GB
so that I could do raid-z2 instead
thinking that once you add one more drive
you'd rather have raidz2 than raidz

On 4/7/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Two conflicting answers to the same question?  I guess we need someone to
break the tie :)

> Hello,
>
> I have been reading alot of good things about Raid-z,
> but before I jump into it I have one unanswered
> question i can't find a clear answer for.
>
> Is it possible to enlarge the initial RAID size by
> adding single drives later on?
>
> If i start off with 4*500gb (should give me 1.5tb),
> can I add one 500gb to the raid later, and will the
> total size then grow 500gb and still have the same
> protection?


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