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Originally Posted by Phoenix32
Forget the days of sync time David already mentioned. Do you have any idea how long it will take to move that much data (or back it up) to a 4000 on that LAN connection?
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There's a potentially far more problematic issue - the SnapOS units don't have a lot of memory in them, and the amount of memory needed to check a disk for filesystem errors grows with larger drives. You can build a system that normally works fine, but will never recover from a corrupted filesystem - you'll get a message in the debug log about "falling back to swap-based fsck" and it will take weeks or longer to complete (if, in fact, the extra disk activity doesn't cause a further failure).
Seriously, if you're going to be buying new drives, get yourself some sort of modern BYOD (Bring Your Own Drives) file server like a Qnap and put the drives in that. You'll be a lot happier.