promise pegasus r4 hard drive replacement

PROMISE PEGASUS R4 HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT SOFTWARE

Does that mean it's risky to use drives larger than 3TB in the R4? If Promise hasn't tested it, have any other customers tested a set of 4x 4TB or 4x 6TB HHDs in the R4? It says any of the drives listed there should work in all systems, but are untested in some models.

However, I checked the latest Pegasus2 Compatibility list and it looks like there are only two drive models that the R4 was tested with and ships with, a Toshiba 3TB and a Toshiba 2TB. My initial idea was to remove all the 2TB HHDs from my R4, all of which are still functional, put them in a safe offsite for added backup insurance, and replace them with 4x 4TB HHDs or even 4x 6TB HHDs. I'm tired of dealing with these desktop drives and I would like to move my entire storage system over to the Pegasus2 system, but I'm unsure what the most cost effective way of doing this would be. I've backed up this RAID0 array using another concatenated RAID of 3x desktop drives, some USB2, some USB3, all of which are old, slow and will most likely need replacement soon as well. This RAID0 array was fast enough for what I needed it for at the time, but none of these drives were designed to be used in a RAID and two of them are showing signs of pre-failure and are most likely on their way out.

PROMISE PEGASUS R4 HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT SOFTWARE

Meanwhile I've been doing a bunch of work on another 6TB software RAID0 made up of 3x 2TB Western Digital desktop drives, all USB3.

I use this as a work drive and it's been great, but I have less than 1TB of space left on it and I'm looking to upgrade.

I own a Pegasus2 R4 8TB RAID5 made up of 4x physical 2TB HHDs with 6TB logical capacity.

Promise pegasus r4 hard drive replacement