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Changing Drives in RN214
Hello, I currently have an RN214 fully populated with 4 4TB Western Digital drives. I'm running out of space, and am planning to upgrade all 4 drive to Seagate Ironwolf 12TB drives. I see the S...
Unless you believe the drives are just getting up in age and should be replaced due to that, I suggest you not replace them all now. Replacing two will give you a lot of extra space, and you can add the others later. That will space the ages out more, making it less likely that you could have two drives fail at the same time, rendering your volume dead. It'll also be fewer syncs at this time, reducing the stress on the older drives and any access slow-down the syncs create.
Of course, if you decide to go with StephenB's recommendation of doing a full factory default with all new drives, that doesn't retain the old volume, so that could also be a reason for replacing all four.
The drives are getting old (I think they are almost 6.5 years!), plus I want more space. I'm not too concerned with speed of access while I do the re-syncs, and while I don't WANT to lose the existing information I wouldn't be too upset about it!
Thanks for the information! First 12TB drive is i, and the 1st resync is underway. About 24 hours to go!
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