NOT_Bill_Gates
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- Jul 24, 2015
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I am graduating from a very simple FreeNAS 7 (re-purposed laptop) to a REAL server using an Intel server board and will create a RAIDZ2 array. I am now in the process of purchasing NAS-friendly hard drives and this question is probably stupid to some, but it's this: I know I will get drives of similar capacity and type, planning two for parity and 4 for data, BUT how does it work when one dies and it has to rebuild. Does it wait until I replace the drive and then rebuild, does it turn one of the parity drives into a data drive? Should I purchase drives now that should just simply sit and wait on a shelf to fill in when needed? I figure as time goes on, whatever drives I buy now will eventually be replaced by their manufacturer with newer technology and thus those same drives may no longer be available when I need them.