Hi,
I'm busy planning a new build having recently purchased an HP Microserver N40L.
I'd like to start with two 3TB drives and over time add a third and fourth drive to eventually have RAID 5 (9TB storage, 3TB parity drive). I believe it is possible to grow a RAID array. What is the best way to start the RAID array? Possibly 2 Drives as RAID 0/1 and then grow it to RAID 5 when I get a third drive? I believe this can be quite tricky, is it doable or should I fork out now for 3 drives RAID 5 and then grow it to 4 drives?
Thank you for any assistance.