Hi folks,
Just like the title says, I'd like to expand my storage by upgrading from 4 TB drives to 8 TB drives. I pulled a 4 TB hard drive out and resilvered an 8TB drive, thinking I would just do that with the 4 drives. It took 48 hours to resilver one drive, so I'd like to explore the idea of setting a drive to offline, pull it out and clone it with an Inateck USB 3.0 to SATA Dual-Bay USB 3.0 hard drive docking station with offline clone function.
1) Is this possible?
2) If it is, after the drive has been cloned and put back in, what will happen when I choose replace, do the drop down to 8TB and click ok? Will it see the data and think everything is fine, or will it go through a resilver process to verify the data matches? I'm not sure what will happen.
3) What would happen if I just stuck the disk back in and put it online without using the replace option?
I appreciate any assistance you can offer.
Thanks,
Jeff
Just like the title says, I'd like to expand my storage by upgrading from 4 TB drives to 8 TB drives. I pulled a 4 TB hard drive out and resilvered an 8TB drive, thinking I would just do that with the 4 drives. It took 48 hours to resilver one drive, so I'd like to explore the idea of setting a drive to offline, pull it out and clone it with an Inateck USB 3.0 to SATA Dual-Bay USB 3.0 hard drive docking station with offline clone function.
1) Is this possible?
2) If it is, after the drive has been cloned and put back in, what will happen when I choose replace, do the drop down to 8TB and click ok? Will it see the data and think everything is fine, or will it go through a resilver process to verify the data matches? I'm not sure what will happen.
3) What would happen if I just stuck the disk back in and put it online without using the replace option?
I appreciate any assistance you can offer.
Thanks,
Jeff