Hot standby or swap smaller drive?


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Due to a happy glitch I ended up getting a really good deal on 2 10TB reds. I was only going to add one to my 5 4TB drives that are now over 80% utilized.

 

So now that I have 2, should I leave one on and unassigned after preclear or swap out one of the 4TBs and let it rebuild? Let me know what you think. Thanks all.

 

 

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Neither. Test it, put it back in a secure spot out of the server. If you have a failure, use it as a replacement. If you run out of space, deal with that then. No point in racking up hours on a drive that's not being used.


Thanks for the advice. I’ll do just that!


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