I'm currently setting up a DELL server, which came with 2*500gb disk drives but is configured in RAID 1. I want to increase the total capacity of the disk storage to at least 1TB. Now with it being RAID 1 I'm currently only getting a total storage of 500gb. I have 2 spare slots for disk drives in the server. Now my question is if I configure it to use RAID 5 and I put in 2 * 1TB disk drives would it treat the 2 * 500gb disk drives as 1 virtual disk totaling to 1TB, which when added to the 2 * 1TB disk drives give me a total disk capacity of 2TB on the server?
Cheers,
Pradeep