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RN3200 XRAID Expansion - Sanity Check.
Folks, We have an existing 6TB (6 x 1TB Factory Stock Drives) in a XRAID2 array which we are looking to expand with the addition of 3 x 2Tb drives from the approved drive list. Ideally I would like ...
putting them in individually is the safest way, this will help protect from drives that die early.
if you put all 4 in and powered up, then 3 of the new drives failed, you could lose the whole array.
putting one drive in a time, you suffere only 1 drive failure (well unless the failure happens from one or more of the older existing drives).
In any case, its important to always have a current backup of all data before making large changes such as adding a bunch of drives.
if you put all 4 in and powered up, then 3 of the new drives failed, you could lose the whole array.
putting one drive in a time, you suffere only 1 drive failure (well unless the failure happens from one or more of the older existing drives).
In any case, its important to always have a current backup of all data before making large changes such as adding a bunch of drives.
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