It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ADAMICradio on 2025-04-19 23:05:52.

I have an old Netgear Readynas 6 bay with 2 drives dead so 0 redundancy. The unit has been off for a few years. I would like to turn it on and copy whatever is on it onto my new Truenas Scale. Should I put new/refurbed drives into the 2 dead slots to build redundancy or should I just start copying the files off the Readynas? I know resilvering can be stressful on drives but what is more stressful the resilvering or grabbing the files for a backup? I believe in the past resilvering on the Readynas took 6-12 hours. I have around 6-7tb of data on the Readynas and believe it will take several days to move.