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I want to remove a drive from my system

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iansilv

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Hi- I would like to add a 6tb drive to my system but remove two 750gb drives- how can I do this? I do not want to wait for a drive to die and I would like to just get rid of both of the remaining 750s at once.
 
You would have to replace *each* of the 750 GB drives with a replacement drive. Once drives have been added to a file system, they cannot be removed or the file system will be considered degraded. The failed drives must be replaced so that the number of disks comprising the file system remains the same.

The only way to reduce the disk count in a file system would be by replicating the content of your current set of disks onto a completely new set of disks but this would require you to replace *all* of your drives not just the two drives you are wanting to replace.

There are certain, rare, exceptions to this. For example, if a drive has never had any user data written to it fails then it would simply be removed from the file system without degrading the system (and available space would shrink by the amount of the failed drive). But this is pretty much never the case for systems that have been up and running for a while.
 
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