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Upgrade Lacie 6Big Raid 5 - Enquiries - 01-25-2025
MAC User. Currently have Lacie 6Big with 10 TB drives running Raid 5. About to run out of space so I was looking to upgrade my storage capacity. To that end I started purchasing new IronWolf Pro 18TB-ST18000NT001 drives to replace the existing ones. Seagate said these were the largest my 6Big would support.
Now I am wondering if I should just replace the enclosure as well due to time and risk involved in hot swapping the drives.
Watched your video on Terramaster but still undecided between the Terramaster D8-332 and the OWC Thunderbay Flex 8. Hardware RAID is my preference. Noticed the price on the OWC for Hardware RAID is +$900 which isn't a show stopper but I was curious if it was worth it. Between the two which would you recommend and why?