Subj : Re: Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.
To   : jinkusu
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Nov 03 2024 07:53:00

-=> jinkusu wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pF> Or, I could get larger drives, wipe the volume, create a volume with
 pF> fewer disks and save space for a hot-swap?

 ji> 2tb drives?  depending on how many bays you have left... just create a
 ji> new volume, copy all your data to it, and remove the old drives TBH.
 ji> all of your data would fit on one drive at this point.

 ji> if you don't have the bays left to create a new volume i'd get an
 ji> external disk adapter, temporarily copy your data to a new disk, remove
 ji> the existing array completely, and then build a new volume from new
 ji> disks.

5x2TB drives, which works out to 7.2 TB. I'm about half-full, so I could
get by with replacing the drives. I just cleared out 1.7TB of BBS
backups which I didn't need...   :)


 
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