The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/aerlenbach on 2024-11-22 00:27:39.

I have a 4-bay system with RAID 1 2x8 TB drives and RAID 1 2x10 TB drives. The 10 TB drives are a few years old now and the 8 TB drives are full.

I want to replace the 8 TB drives with 2 10 TB drives to do RAID 5, jumping from 18 to 30 TB of usable storage. Is there much concern with having 2 new drives and 2 older ones? Is there any specific feature that I should match with my existing drives so they’ll run better? Is there anything obvious I’m missing?

Thanks!