DFS Maintenance Practices

I have two file servers both replicating full mesh to provide redundancy for our folders and files.  Both machines are running Win2012 Standard.  On this machines they both have a volume each in RAID6 configuration.  This is the shared volume.
We find ourselves in a position that we want to upgrade the RAID to 10 so it is necessary to destroy the volume on each server one at a time.
Therefore my question is, what is the best practice in maintaining the given namespace and ensuring that the replication does not try to replicate the wrong way thus wiping the data.  So I would like it so that users can continue to work while this
is happening?

In your configuration both servers, in theory, have the same files at any given point in time.  When you're ready to do the work on the severs, edit the replication schedule, in DFS mgt, for that group(s).  So that it is not replicating in the
window of time that you expect to be working the server.
An important thing to remember; when you have the new partition ready, pre-seed the data first.  Don't start with one server empty.  Pre-seed it from a backup, or copy the files with Robocopy.  Remember, DFS-R isn't going to overwrite newer
files with older files.

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