I don't have a spare SATA slot I do however have a spare USB carrier, is that fast enough to be used temporarily? On 21 March 2017 at 01:59, Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 20/3/17 23:47, Jeff Allison wrote: >> >> Hi all I’ve had a poke around but am yet to find something definitive. >> >> I have a raid 5 array of 4 disks amounting to approx 5.5tb. Now this disks >> are getting a bit long in the tooth so before I get into problems I’ve >> bought 4 new disks to replace them. >> >> I have a backup so if it all goes west I’m covered. So I’m looking for >> suggestions. >> >> My current plan is just to replace the 2tb drives with the new 3tb drives >> and move on, I’d like to do it on line with out having to trash the array >> and start again, so does anyone have a game plan for doing that. > > Yes, do not fail a disk and then replace it, use the newer replace method > (it keeps redundancy in the array). > Even better would be to add a disk, and convert to RAID6, then add a second > disk (using replace), and so on, then remove the last disk, grow the array > to fill the 3TB, and then reduce the number of disks in the raid. > This way, you end up with RAID6... >> >> Or is a 9tb raid 5 array the wrong thing to be doing and should I be doing >> something else 6tb raid 10 or something I’m open to suggestions. > > I'd feel safer with RAID6, but it depends on your requirements. RAID10 is > also a nice option, but, it depends... > > Regards, > Adam > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
