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  1. Something to be aware of: The new 6TB RED is likely to be SMR, not CMR/PMR. (Shingled Magnetic Recording), and one of the major concerns with these new WD SMR drives, is this use-case (what you're about to attempt) rebuilding arrays/adding an extra disk to a RAID 5 array, because an SMR drive has no downtime during this very extensive task, to do the required slower SMR background tasks. If I was you I'd contact WD, explain the situation and ask for a replacement to a 6TB RED Pro or buy a Seagate Ironwolf NAS, both of which are CMR. I wouldn't risk it with the 6TB RED, if it is one of the new SMR drives. It won't be the same type of drive as the existing REDs you have.
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