The numbers of the chosen physical drives should support the current pool's RAID Level ; The same RAID level should be used for pool expansion.

 

1].Click the lock to Unlock first after lunch the Promise Utility Pro

2].Click the Controls tab

3].Put the password of the login user

4]. Go to Pools tab and select your pool and then click Expand function

 

5].Select physical drives you would like to expand. For this case, original pool is with RAID5 level so you at least select 3 disks to expand the pool.

 

6].Check these drives for the pool at Dashboard tab when pool-expand is done.

 

7]. Go to Pools tab and select your pool and then click Add Volume function

 

8].A new Pegasus Volume (VolumeName2) will be mounted after formatting it.