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Swapping out old drives for new
I have an Ultra 6 with the most current firmware and 6.10.2. i have another old 1TB drive(2013) dying. I decided to just order all new drives, and bought 2TB NAS drives. I am currently running X-RAID...
It will take a lot longer than just putting in the new drives and starting over, then restoring from backup. And, there is the chance that one of the other drives will fail, forcing you to do that, anyway.
But, you retain access to your data (though at a slightly reduced throughput) throughout.
So, choose which works best for you.
Understood. I'm OK letting it rebuild. The drive that is failing is the last old 1TB drive. The rest have very few hours on them.
Thanks for all the feedback.
What ended up happening is that on the replacement of the third drive, the system locked up.
I could not get it to recover so I went to plan B. I swapped out all the drives with the new 2TB drives, and restored from files based backup.
I am back to 100%, have more space, and the backup is once again performing as it should.I am thankful that this system has been good to me since 2013, and when I get back to the states I will start looking into replacing it completely with a new 8 drive system.
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