On 2013-10-18, Scott McEachern <sc...@blackstaff.ca> wrote: > Circumstances change, and I might be able to redeploy those HDDs as a > RAID5 array. This, at least in theory, would allow the 18TB total to be > realized as 15TB as RAID5, gaining me 6TB.
even if softraid would rebuild raid5, I'd worry about additional disk failures before/during rebuild for a volume of this sort of size.. (especially given that rebuilding is not automatic with softraid).
