December 30, 20178 yr I picked up a new 2TB Seagate older model (model ending in 06) that I was intending to use as a parity drive in a new hobbled together backup unraid box for the essentials from my primary unraid. My intention is to only start the thing once a month or so to do a backup ( but that strategy could change). The other drives for the backup rig would be trickled down from the main array as I upgrade them. The thought was, now that the new drive successfully completed 3 preclear cycles, that it should be the most reliable parity for the backup array with otherwise hand-me-downs. Then I wondered if it didn't make more sense just to put the new drive in my primary array and relegate one of the disks that have been spinning for 6+ years to parity instead. Any thoughts on the best approach?
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