November 23, 2025Nov 23 My array is made of a mix of 2 ST24000NT002 and 3 ST16000NT001 drives. My plan has been to slowly replace the 16T drives with 24T drives as they are affordable. Currently it seems that "Black Friday" deals are for the 28T ST28000NT002, which is going for $50 less than the ST24000NT002. If I purchase two of these 28T drives I could do this:1) replace Parity drive with 28T2) wait two days for parity rebuild3) replace a 16T array drive with new 28T drive4) wait two days for parity restore5) replace a 16T array drive with the removed 24T (formerly parity) drive6) wait two days for parity restore. Net Gain 12T + 8T = 20TIs there a more efficient procedure? Can any of these steps be parallelized?
November 24, 2025Nov 24 Community Expert 15 hours ago, timg11 said:Can any of these steps be parallelized?Not using the GUI.
November 24, 2025Nov 24 Author There is a way to save days in the drive upgrade process without using the GUI? Tell me more!
November 25, 2025Nov 25 Community Expert There's at least one way to do it faster, but it's not really worth it for this case I think, but you could copy the data from both data disks to the new ones; the array would be without parity, and when that's done, sync the new parity.
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