I am currently using a HP N54L in production for backup/file server purposes. It's configured for Raidz1 with 5 x WD Red 3TB drives and 16GB RAM.
I have just purchased another N54L to act as a ZFS replication target for offsite replication with the same specs, aside from the drives which are 5 x WD RE4 3TB enterprise drives.
I'm wanting to swap out the Red drives for the enterprise drives in our existing onsite box for increased reliability but am unsure as how best to do so while limiting downtime. This way the Red drives will be used offsite for D/R and the enterprise drives will be onsite and more suited to the production workload.
The options I have thought of so far are:
Thanks.
I have just purchased another N54L to act as a ZFS replication target for offsite replication with the same specs, aside from the drives which are 5 x WD RE4 3TB enterprise drives.
I'm wanting to swap out the Red drives for the enterprise drives in our existing onsite box for increased reliability but am unsure as how best to do so while limiting downtime. This way the Red drives will be used offsite for D/R and the enterprise drives will be onsite and more suited to the production workload.
The options I have thought of so far are:
- Swap out the drives one-by-one and let it rebuild onto each new drive. How long will this take and is it reliable?
- Build the new box with the enterprise drives and replicate the existing box to it and then swap the boxes around. Will this affect current shares or introduce connectivity issues?
Thanks.