Cross your fingers, but you're probably fine unless you have 2 drives completely drop out of the pool. Fast and dirty calcs say 15+ hours for 6 TB over gigabit.
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It's a few days later because work interrupted me. Got all the data copied in ~12 hours, though one of my old drives indeed failed during the process. Swapped the new drives into the old NAS, imported the pool, relinked my mount points, and everything seems good to go, beyond a brief moment of panic when the NAS failed to boot because I had accidentally bumped the SATA cable to the system pool SSD.
All in all, not too bad. Now I can use the remaining functional old drives for some kind of longer-term backups. Appreciate the advice, guys.
All in all, not too bad. Now I can use the remaining functional old drives for some kind of longer-term backups. Appreciate the advice, guys.
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I have a QNAP TS251, pretty old at this point but still works ok. One of the drives in my RAID1 configuration is sprouting bad sectors and SMART warnings. Can I just physically replace the bad drive and the RAID1 configuration will automatically copy over without data loss? I mean, I guess this is the exact purpose of RAID1, just never actually replaced a bad drive in one.