So I have a Areca 1261 Raid Conroller with 15x2TB in Raid 6 with 1 Hot spare
I'm sorta thinking ahead on how I will migrate to 3TB drives (or 4) Now I understand that
1) Raid should use the same size/type of drives
2) I belive that if I add say a 3TB drive as a replacement dirive it will only use 2TB's
What I was wondering is if I swap 1 drive at a time with say a 3TB drive and let it rebuild once Its complete will the raid understand it now has all 3TB drives and allow me to expand it?
I'm looking for guidence on how to migrate from 15x2Tb to 15x3Tb short of building a 2nd server of course Unless thats the only real way to do it
I'm sorta thinking ahead on how I will migrate to 3TB drives (or 4) Now I understand that
1) Raid should use the same size/type of drives
2) I belive that if I add say a 3TB drive as a replacement dirive it will only use 2TB's
What I was wondering is if I swap 1 drive at a time with say a 3TB drive and let it rebuild once Its complete will the raid understand it now has all 3TB drives and allow me to expand it?
I'm looking for guidence on how to migrate from 15x2Tb to 15x3Tb short of building a 2nd server of course Unless thats the only real way to do it