Hopper

Having a bit of a clear out of a few lab items. Only posting here as they are collection only but deals to be had. Collection from Newcastle Upon Tyne £700 - Synology RackStation 12 Bay RS3621XS+ with rails, Extra NIC & RAM - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326259787319 £480 / £5/TB - 8 Dell 12TB SAS 7.2k 3.5" Hard Drive HUH721212AL5200 Drives 96TB in Total - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326259787919 £480 / £5/TB - 8 Western Digital 12TB 7.2K 3.5" SAS HDD HUH721212AL5201 Drives 96TB in Total - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326259788274 £160 - XPC-424-HS - 24 Bay Hotswap Storage Chassis 12GB Backplane - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326259789999

Is it possible to run both sata & sas drives from a single 9305-24i? I'm already using 5 of the 6 connections to SAS drives but wonder if I can use the spare mini-SAS HD connector to split out to 4 sata drives I've read in a on discord that mixing SAS/SATA drives is usually a bad thing? I wouldn't be adding these extra drives to the array they would be in a pool.

I've got a drive that shows as SMART Health Status: OK however it's unable to run any sort of SMART self-test and errors with a "Failed in segment -->" error. Is this drive actually failed or not? full smartctl attached HUH721212AL5200_8CHWMHHG_35000cca26f6a9ae4-20231219-1312.txt

Not useful for me being EU based but anyone in the US if your happy with reconditioned/used drives https://www.ebay.com/itm/235135313415

I wanted to expand the size of the pool rather than adding redundancy. I suppose this is the pro/negative vs using zfs over xfs/brtfs I suppose the method is to stop all my containers, let mover finish, backup any files left behind in share, add drives, restore files?

6.12.3 Unraid Version I've currently got a single drive in a zfs pool - I want to add another disk(s) to this pool. Can I add disk(s) without losing the data on the original drive or will I have to reformat it?