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6 drives, 2x3tb 4x2tb, 3tb show as 2tb WTF
Hey All. Okay, just set this thing up, updated the firmware, etc. Disks are: 3tb 3tb 2tb 2tb 2tb 2tb It is set up as Raid Level X-Raid2 6 disks. But for some reason the volumes of ...
If you have an existing array with empty slots, then you can only fill the empty slots with the largest installed size (or larger). Similarly, replacement disks either match their existing size, or are the largest size (or larger).
kevikev wrote: Are there any practical negatives to installing mixed size disks like this into the Pro 6?
Dual Redundancy requires 4 drives of the largest size.
Forensic recovery might be harder, as the volume is built up of multiple RAID layers.
I've run a mix of 1.5 TB and 3 TB in my Pro 6 for a while now, with no issues. Currently it is 2x1.5 TB + 4x3TB.
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