Managing raid 5 disks in sharespace - nas server WDA4NC40000

Please see my post at 

Increasing sharespace capacity from 4*1 TB 4*2 TB

I am resurrecting that thread. Before buying new drives, allow me a day or two to test a few things.

I am in the same situation whereas 2 of the 4 drives have basically crapped out. I have seen these

drives fail in regular desktops as well. They are junk and fail rather quickly in some cases I have seen.

And yes these drives are only 5400 rpm instead of the better 7200.

These drives can however still be purchased 

Western Digital WD Green WD10EARS 1TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

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