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Dual drive failure with dual parity - best options


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I have a unraid system with 14 drives plus 2 parity drive and cache drive.  Parity drives are 8TB drives.  data drives are mix of 4-8 TB drives.  

I now have a dual drive failure.  My 6 and 8 TB Data drives failed.

I purchased 3 16 TB Drives and wanted to replace the 8 TB parity drives with the 16 TB parity drives and shrink the array by removing the 2 malfunctioning drive with 1 16TB drive.  

I do not have any other spare drives available.

Whats my best option?  

What are my steps:

- use unbalance and move data off the malfunctioning drives?  will that work?

- replace the malfunctioning drives with 16TB drives and keep 8 TB parity until the drive gets rebuilt?

 

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