July 7, 2025Jul 7 Good morning. So I had the worse possible scenario happen. I had 2 8tb drives fail. Current setup -Parity - 1 x 8tb driveArray - 5 8tb drives2 of the array drives died. They seem to be unrecoverable. I have not take any steps to rebuild the array or to bring the array online. I wanted to get advice from others first. I can either get 2 12tb drives or get 2 8tb drives. I realize if I do the 12tb drives i will have to use one of them for parity (since it is larger than the other drives). Either way (12tb vs 8tb) my main question is this. Once i have the 2 new drives installed i am pretty sure I will have to create a new config since 2 drives failed and I only have 1 parity drive. If I create a new config will the data on the 3 good drives be wiped out when creating the new config? I am basically trying to find out if I am going to have a complete data loss or if the data on the 3 good drives will still be there and accessible.If anyone needs more information please let me know. I can provide anything needed to help with this. Thanks in advance for the help!!!
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