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I have a 8x6TB RaidZ2 system.
I purchased 8 new drives to increase capacity.
There are spare drive slots available in the system.
The system allows hot swapping (I can see the new drive.)
My intention is to insert a new larger drive into an open slot, then tell the system to replace one of the existing ones.
Do I have to _offline_ a drive before I replace it? I read a post somewhere that explained that drive replacement is (safer) if the drives are all online while the new drive resilvers. That is not specifically offered in the manual that I can see though.
I purchased 8 new drives to increase capacity.
There are spare drive slots available in the system.
The system allows hot swapping (I can see the new drive.)
My intention is to insert a new larger drive into an open slot, then tell the system to replace one of the existing ones.
Do I have to _offline_ a drive before I replace it? I read a post somewhere that explained that drive replacement is (safer) if the drives are all online while the new drive resilvers. That is not specifically offered in the manual that I can see though.