So I have an 8-drive Raid 1+0 arrangement in a Thunderbay 8. All 8 drives are 5TB drives yielding 20TB of usable space.
I'm looking around online and as of late, 5 TB drives are almost impossible to find. In fact I've had two orders cancelled when the vendor didn't have them even though they said they did. I'm starting to think I won't find 5TB drives at all.
QUESTION: If a 5TB drive should fail in my existing configuraton , could I replace it with a 6TB drive successfully? Are there any special considerations? I don't need to increase space so I could live with using only 5TB of a 6TB drive's capacity. I just want to know if it could work. One day one of these drives will fail.
No considerations, just buy any drive 5TB or larger! Your volume will remain the same capacity, however.
@softraid-support Awesome. I don't need capacity, I just want to be prepared for a drive failure so this is all good.
REgards,
PG