Yeah, the risk of the rest of the old drives failing under high load while rebuilding/restoring is also very real, so staging is necessary as well. I don't exa

Yeah, the risk of the rest of the old drives failing under high load while rebuilding/restoring is also very real, so staging is necessary as well. I don't exactly hoard data by dozens of terabytes, but I rotate my backup drives each few years, with a 2-year difference between them.