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Replacing a drive in a RAID 10 with larger one

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(@psg)
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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.

 
Posted : 17/08/2020 3:17 pm
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No considerations, just buy any drive 5TB or larger! Your volume will remain the same capacity, however.

 
Posted : 17/08/2020 10:54 pm
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@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

 
Posted : 18/08/2020 2:24 pm
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