I'm planning some drive migrations. I'm trying to stay ahead of a couple of drives that are starting to show smart errors. My plan is to remove a mix of 6tb & 8tb drives and add 10tb drives. Additionally I'm going to add a second parity drive. It's going to take me about 5 steps along this path and 4 of my drives will get upgraded.
My parity drive is currently 8tb. I want to replace the two worst drives before changing the parity drive. Can I put in a new 10tb data drive before changing the parity?
I'm hoping the 2tb of data will just be ignored and then become available once the parity is changed.
TIA.