I currently own a DS415+ filled with 4x6TB WD RED drives, bought ~ 5 years ago. Recently, after 5 years one of my drives is saying "An I/O error occurred to the drive." and "I/O Errors", which after 5 years is acceptable.
Since now WD RED drives go up to 14 TB, I would like to replace the failing drive with a 12 or 14 TB drive. In know that the volume won't be expanded until I upgrade at least 2 drives, and eventually I will upgrade all the drives, but I don't want the 6 TB drives to go to waste just because I am changing them with 12/14 TB ones.
Hence, I was thinking of possible solutions:
1. Buy a Synology extension box, but the 5-bay one seems to be highly unreliable and nobody recommends it
2. Buy an 8 bay Synology, move the 4 drives to the new one and try to sell the 4 bay. Question is, will Synology upgrade the existing 8 bays? Should I wait? Also, will my configs migrate also? I have several docker containers and plex running.
Don't see a third option here.
Thoughts?
Since now WD RED drives go up to 14 TB, I would like to replace the failing drive with a 12 or 14 TB drive. In know that the volume won't be expanded until I upgrade at least 2 drives, and eventually I will upgrade all the drives, but I don't want the 6 TB drives to go to waste just because I am changing them with 12/14 TB ones.
Hence, I was thinking of possible solutions:
1. Buy a Synology extension box, but the 5-bay one seems to be highly unreliable and nobody recommends it
2. Buy an 8 bay Synology, move the 4 drives to the new one and try to sell the 4 bay. Question is, will Synology upgrade the existing 8 bays? Should I wait? Also, will my configs migrate also? I have several docker containers and plex running.
Don't see a third option here.
Thoughts?