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I have 3 16TB HDDs in my DS920+ that I just configured in a storage pool with SHR1. From the guidance here, it seems I cannot add an old 12TB HDD to the pool. Specifically:
"The drive you want to add must be equal to or larger than the largest drive in the storage pool, or equal to any of the drives in the storage pool."
Trying to understand why is this case and if the article above is accurate. I read how SHR1 works but can't think why this would be disallowed.
Can I expand my pool with any HDD that is not 16TB in size without wasting space on it? If I can only expand with a 16TB drive, should I change over to RAID 5 instead of SHR1 in my situation? Pros and cons of doing this?
Thanks!
"The drive you want to add must be equal to or larger than the largest drive in the storage pool, or equal to any of the drives in the storage pool."
Trying to understand why is this case and if the article above is accurate. I read how SHR1 works but can't think why this would be disallowed.
Can I expand my pool with any HDD that is not 16TB in size without wasting space on it? If I can only expand with a 16TB drive, should I change over to RAID 5 instead of SHR1 in my situation? Pros and cons of doing this?
Thanks!