Soon as I passed %70 on my box I thought it would be a good idea to plan ahead a little. I have 9 4TB drives including the parity. I have plenty of drive slots, and about 6 or 7 SATA connectors available. What would you do? Keep shoving 4TB drives in there that I haven't seen a price drop in over a year or look into using larger drives? I mean I still have a shitload of space left and can let the SSD market and large HD market soak for a while. I accumulate data/media fast somehow. That's how good these automated programs work like Sonarr/SAB/Etc...

If you keep accumulating more 4TB drives I'd go to dual parity.

Yeah I agree, I think once you go beyond ten drives its a good idea to have dual parity.

You don't think trying to get the 2GB drives out first then increase my parity drive size? All those that bought the Seagate Archive 8TB, how do you like it? For cost that would be my choice, but if I could get better performing 8TB drives just for parity I just may try it. That was my whole idea about getting a 24 port case. Fill'er up.

 

There's a whole thread about Seagate Archive drives: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=39526.0

 

There are "better performing" 8 TB (and 10TB) drives available - at a price.

 

It's really a personal choice. I would look to installing the largest parity drives I could justify (though that represents an expenditure without any increase in immediate capacity, and is therefore an investment in the future) but I wouldn't discard the smaller drives unless they are beginning to show problems, but I would stop buying them and only buy the larger size (to match my parity).