> Just add an event to calendar for $date+1y Unfortunately that won't wash if you are renting a server of collocating. Replacing a drive without it having alre

> Just add an event to calendar for $date+1y Unfortunately that won't wash if you are renting a server of collocating. Replacing a drive without it having already failed would most likely result in a charge for unnecessary hands-on maintenance time. Though if you are expanding the storage anyway you could do it with an identically sized pair of drives, sync the existing array over to one of the new ones, drop the extra, then you have to unmatched drives for a new array. If using LVM you can join that to the existing VG or (less safe but better performing once you are done) you can try reshape the two arrays into a stripeset for RAID1+0. And hope that the new drives are not from the same batch as your existing ones and have just been sat in a store cupboard for the last year.