Hey All! I've had my 1019+ for a few years now. 5 x 6TB drives in a Raid 6 array. Worked great since day one. I don't do much tinkering, so not too familiar with the ins and outs of it. My unit is filling up, so I've decided to replace them with 12TB drives. But for good measure, I've also decided to get the expansion unit to add more capacity and create more arrays. I've got some thoughts and questions below. Hope you guys can give me some input.
- Is it faster and/or better to put those new 12TB into the expansion unit and do a copy/replace versus putting one drive in at a time and doing rebuilds?
- If so, my raid 6 array would then reside in the expansion unit. Would I see a performance drop since my entire array resides there and not the main unit?
- Can I then move my 12TB drives back into the main unit without much fuss?