March 9, 20179 yr I have my main drive as 6TB and only really need 4TB right now. I have an extra 1TB drive i could add. Is there a benefit to adding this other 1TB drive? Does it help with my 6TB drives health? Thanks
March 9, 20179 yr Community Expert There might be some benefit using that drive as cache if you don't already have one. I wouldn't bother putting a drive that small in my array. Do you have a parity drive?
March 9, 20179 yr Author 3 minutes ago, trurl said: There might be some benefit using that drive as cache if you don't already have one. I wouldn't bother putting a drive that small in my array. Do you have a parity drive? I already have a 250GB SSD for cache. I was just checking mostly about maintaining the health of main drive. Thanks for the reply
March 9, 20179 yr 2 hours ago, rh535 said: I have my main drive as 6TB and only really need 4TB right now. I have an extra 1TB drive i could add. Is there a benefit to adding this other 1TB drive? Does it help with my 6TB drives health? Thanks Exactly the opposite. Don't add drives you don't need. If your 6TB drive failed, the parity drive would be able to rebuild it. If you had added the 1TB and it fails while you were rebuilding your 6TB, the rebuild would fail, even if there was no data on the 1TB. Fewest spindles necessary to store your stuff.
March 9, 20179 yr Author 16 minutes ago, jonathanm said: Exactly the opposite. Don't add drives you don't need. If your 6TB drive failed, the parity drive would be able to rebuild it. If you had added the 1TB and it fails while you were rebuilding your 6TB, the rebuild would fail, even if there was no data on the 1TB. Fewest spindles necessary to store your stuff. Oh wow. Makes sense. Thanks so much for the info. Learned something new today!
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