Upgrade my hard drives

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MrMeanor
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Upgrade my hard drives

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I have a 10-bay unit (AS6210T). Each drive is 4TB. The 10 drives are configured as 1 volume raid level 6. I regret not making two volumes or maybe even 3 but that is now in the past.

As drives die, I would like to look at replacing them with larger (8TB) drives. I believe that if I simply replace them as is, they would be formatted as 4TB which would defeat the purpose. Is there a way to start slowly replacing the 4TB drives with 8TB drives and still take advantage of the expanded storage? Eventually, I would have all drives at 8TB.

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Re: Upgrade my hard drives

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You can replace with larger drives then expand the capacity. Take a look at point 3.2 of https://www.asustor.com/online/College_topic?topic=352
AS5304T - 16GB DDR4 - ADM-OS modded on 2GB RAM
Internal:
- 4x10TB Toshiba RAID10 Ext4-Journal=Off
External 5 Bay USB3:
- 4x2TB Seagate modded RAID0 Btrfs-Compression
- 480GB Intel SSD for modded dm-cache (initramfs auto update patch) and Apps

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