TheExplorographer Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 I finally, after 7 years of use have 1 of my HGST NAS drives going. It is a 5TB. Locally, I can source a 4TB drive and a 6TB (or larger) but no 5TB drives. My parity is a 5TB drive as well. I think I know what most of your answers will be but I thought I would ask what you would do as an upgrade/Fix path. My thought is to upgrade the Parity to an 8TB to match my other server and the disk that is going bad to a 6 or 8tb. My second question is how? Do I stick the Parity in there first (leaving the bad drive) Adopt the new parity? Or? Thanks for your input in advance. ~Andy Quote Link to comment
Gragorg Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 (edited) There is a procedure called "parity swap". This would allow you to use a 6TB or 8TB which ever you decide to buy for parity. Then use the existing 5TB parity drive for the data drive. Here is a link to parity swap. Edited August 27, 2021 by Gragorg 1 Quote Link to comment
TheExplorographer Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 (edited) Gragorg, THANK YOU! Edited August 28, 2021 by TheExplorographer Quote Link to comment
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