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I have a new 14TB drive arriving in about a week that will replace one of my 10TB Parity drives, I am definitely not looking forward to rsyncing that over as a monolithic file since it takes several days. I won't be able to do a snapraid sync for the entire time.

Yes, I understand I could specially partition my drive or I could keep 5 2TB drives hooked up. I'm just making a suggestion for making transitions easier in the future. Right now that's my best option though.

Being able to individually disable parity drives other than the last is really the biggest thing missing for me. When one of my lower-numbered P drives fails or needs to be upgraded, all syncing stops. The other feature I'd like to see added would be "chunking" parity into segments instead of using the whole available drive space for a single file. I'd love to be able to set a feature "MaxParityFileSize=2TB" and have it automatically create multiple files instead of a single monolithic file - this...

I agree for the most part, SnapRAID is very mature and does everything I need now. But there's a few things that would still be nice to have: 1. The ability to continue doing syncs even when a parity drive fails. Right now, if my first parity drive fails, I'll have two additional parity drives. But I won't be able to do another sync until I replace and rebuild parity #1, which endangers my new data for that time-period. This has happened twice already. I can't comment out the first parity drive and...

I've been having trouble with one of my 3 parity drives, number 2. It seems I can't just comment out my 2-parity and let it keep computing parity for #1 and #3, there absolutely must be a #2.... and I don't have a drive to give it right now. Why? Could it not just warn you that #2 is missing and continue to calculate #1 and #3 anyway, giving me at least most of my redundancy instead of failing completely?

I expanded mine with this StarTech.com 4 Drive Bay: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/...

Is there a way to spin down just my parity drives after syncing/scrubbing and leaving...