Symbiot78 Posted April 14, 2014 #1 Posted April 14, 2014 Hi I've got a 4 disk Raid5 running on xpenology. All disks are plugged into my motherboard (mb has 4x sata) I am thinking that I'd gain some speed moving the 4 disks to my dawicontrol raid-controller.. which is already sitting in my server.. but just not in use.. 1. would I gain anything? 2. how will the raid5 filesystem react to being moved from what I assume is software raid to hardware raid? 3. is it important that disk1 is plugged into port 1 of the raidcontroller (etc) Hope you guys can give some advice
jokies Posted April 14, 2014 #2 Posted April 14, 2014 (edited) Hi I've got a 4 disk Raid5 running on xpenology. All disks are plugged into my motherboard (mb has 4x sata) I am thinking that I'd gain some speed moving the 4 disks to my dawicontrol raid-controller.. which is already sitting in my server.. but just not in use.. 1. would I gain anything? 2. how will the raid5 filesystem react to being moved from what I assume is software raid to hardware raid? 3. is it important that disk1 is plugged into port 1 of the raidcontroller (etc) Hope you guys can give some advice Don't do that, will cause data lose. Synology use a software raid based solution to form up the approach of elastic space and protection balanced SHR raid mode. Which is without any doubt, won't be supported by your raid-controller. Meanwhile, I believed if you use your raid-controller to host the array, they show up as a single storage instead of several separated disks, and yes, DSM will see only one disk instead, so there are little chance to preserve existing data. Edited April 14, 2014 by Guest
Symbiot78 Posted April 14, 2014 Author #3 Posted April 14, 2014 ok, thanks.. I'll backup my data, and THEN do it..
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