US Patent 11507287 Adding single disks to an array by relocating raid members

Protection group members from a cluster of W baseline size disks with RAID (D+P) protection groups associated with W partition indices, where W=D+P, are selected and relocated to a new baseline size disk using a W-by-W relocation sequence matrix. The same relocation sequence matrix is used to select and relocate protection group members from M clusters of baseline size disks to a new disk that has M times the storage capacity of each baseline size disk. A new cluster of multiple size disks is formed when W multiple size disks have been added, after which the W-by-W relocation sequence matrix is used to select and relocate protection group members from the new cluster to additional multiple size disks.