SnarfsMojo

Thanks for the prompt replies! Is there a need to check parity after every rebuild (pulling a 4tb drive, replacing it with an 8tb drive, letting the 8tb drive rebuild based on parity settings)?

Good evening, i'm hoping someone can help me out - I am replacing qty8 4tb drives with qty 8 8tb drives. I have enough room in my array to add the 8tb drives in alongside the existing 4tb drives. I would like to use unbalance to move the data off of the 4tb drives and onto the 8tb drives. Once the 4tb drives have been emptied, could I just remove them from the array (stop array, physically remove the drives, start the array). My main concern is how much trashing removing the 4tb drives using the standard procedure (rebuilding the drive from parity plus the data on the existing drives) will cause. I have already migrated about 50% of one of the 4tb drives to an 8tb drive, then started doing some digging and realizing it may not be the best approach. TIA for anyone who can help Snarfy