May 14, 20251 yr Hi all, Just wanted to bounce a couple ideas around for best steps on multiple drive upgrades. Currently have: - 16TB x2 for dual parity - 8TB x7 and 14TB x6 for data I have 20TB x4 on the way. I want to get rid of all of the 8TB drives. Was thinking I would do the following: - Scatter all the data from the 8TB drives - Drop the 2nd parity and remove the 8TB drives - Replace the primary 16TB parity - Add 20TB x2 to the data - Add the final 20TB as secondary parity Thoughts? Thanks!
May 14, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution At some point you are going to have to shrink the array as from what you say you want to end up with less drives than you currently have. you might be better off upgrading both parity drives as the first step. You could do both at the same time and as long as you keep the old parity drives intact you have a fallback position if a data drive fails while doing this.
May 14, 20251 yr Author 2 hours ago, itimpi said: At some point you are going to have to shrink the array as from what you say you want to end up with less drives than you currently have. you might be better off upgrading both parity drives as the first step. You could do both at the same time and as long as you keep the old parity drives intact you have a fallback position if a data drive fails while doing this. That's a great idea! Didn't realize you could do it that way... I absolutely LOVE the thought of the existing parity drives as insurance! Then it becomes a simpler process (I think). Thanks!
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