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> Expanding the storage by replacing with higher capacity disks makes sense That is an insanely time consuming operation that also increases the risk of data l
by tjoff 7y ago
> Expanding the storage by replacing with higher capacity disks makes sense
That is an insanely time consuming operation that also increases the risk of data loss as you have less redundancy during the expansion.
An enterprise ought to just migrate the entire pool/content to somewhere else and redo it completely.
Expanding by replacing with higher capacity drives just feels like a hack and afterthought that only hobbyists would actually make use of.
- the8472 7y ago> as you have less redundancy during the expansion. If the old device is not faulty then the replace operation will keep both old and new in the array until it is complete. > An enterprise ought to just migrate the entire pool/content to somewhere else and redo it completely. That's also an option with send/receive, but that involves downtime. Drive replacements can be done on a live system. Server grade hardware generally supports hotplug.