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Just upgraded my home NAS, had to swap all 8 drives, took 7 days... Not to mention it doubled the size of the array, I would have been much happier with an incr
by bearjaws 5y ago
Just upgraded my home NAS, had to swap all 8 drives, took 7 days... Not to mention it doubled the size of the array, I would have been much happier with an incremental increase.
- dsr_ 5y agoWith RAID10, one could swap out 2 drives to get a size increase. With 2 4 disk vdevs, one could swap out 4 drives for a size increase. So I'm assuming you have a single 8 disk vdev, and no spare places to put disks.
- xanaxagoras 5y agoI did that once, and the experience was a big part of why I use unraid now.
- pessimizer 5y agoI have two boxes that are mainly used as NASes, and I just wait to upgrade until I can fit the contents of both onto one new array. So I bring one down and set it up with the new array, copy the old one still up onto the new array, then swap the now copied array with the array I removed to set up the new array. It's a juggle, basically, but since I use mdadm everything sets itself up pretty painlessly.