I have a Pool made up of sets vdevs, each vdev is a RaidZ1 of 4 disks. I ran into some problems awhile back and had to replace a few disks that FreeNAS was telling were failing. I replaced the disk in a given vdev without removing the old disk immediately. Now the disks that I replaced show...

does this 8-bay limit mean that vdevs are limited to 8 drives, or that you can literally only put them in 8-drive bays? For example if I have a 12-bay Xyratex HB-1235, is it fine if I have 2 vdevs with 6 drives or 1x 8-drive vdev and 1x 4-drive vdev?

Hi guys I have a little problem with my pool. Initially my pool is composed of 2 hdd 4TB in stripe to form 1 vdev. I add 2 other hdd 4TB in stripe to form a another vdev to expand my pool. The expansion finish successfuly ( the spinning loading weel disapear and the pool display 14TB...

Just started at a new studio, and I got to inherit the previous admins config decisions. (great :p) I was told we had 8 disks in RAIDz2, but when I did the math, we were sitting about about 1/2 the usable space that I was expecting to see. Due to the space restriction, the admin also disabled...

Hi! Yesterday, I expanded a RAIDZ volume composed by three drives of 10G each adding a vdev composed by another three drives. These drives have 20G each. I was surprised when I get 60G of storage. I've just lost a 33% because of parity. I've said, I was surprised because I thought that you...

Hello all, tomorrow I'll get an HP Microserver Gen8 wiht 4x1TB HDD to which I would like to migrate 1.99TB of data from a Synology with 2x3TB HDD (In SHR "RAID1") My plan is: Create ZFS Pool as follow VDEV Mirror 1 > disk1 -1TB + disk2-1TB VDEV Mirror 2 > disk3 - 1TB + disk 4-1TB Migrate 1.99...

Two questions - 1) Does 'zfs receive' utilize the ZIL and therefor a SLOG if you have one? 2) I have several 16 drive (3.5") chassis that I've inherited that I'll be using for backups for VM hosts. I'll be using zfs send/rec to get the data there. Would I be better off having two 8 drive...

I have a backup server with 24 3TB 7200RPM disks. Its only job is to store ZFS snapshots from the main Freenas server, so I'd like to configure it as 2 12-drive Z2 vdevs to maximize space. Since it will only have one client, IOPS don't seem to be an issue (correct me if I'm wrong). I know the...

Current situation I have to 2 raidz3 pools in my freeNAS machine: A) 5 x 4TB NAS disks raidz3 (total storage 6,99 TB) B) 11 x 4TB NAS disks raidz3 (total storage 28,1 TB) In addition to that I have 2 more NAS drives 8TB, not being used in FreeNAS. My case can fit maximal 17 disks, 16 are...

Hello, I'm new to FreeNAS and will be setting mine up shortly, as the parts are on the way. I'm starting with 2 3tb WD Red Drives in Raid 1 (or RAIDZ1) for 3TB usable space with 1 disk redundancy. My question is, later on I want to add another set of 3TB Drives and have it be run in RAID 10 or...

My original volume consisted of 12 3tb drives in raidz3. I had read that performance is degraded if the capacity is over 80%. So I bought another 12 3tb drives and used them to extend the volume. I did this using the GUI and extended the existing volume by adding the new 12 drives in a raidz3...

Hi everyone, I am testing my new Freenas with old drives just so i kan mess it up and i won't loose any data. It is fun and much faster then my ReadyNAS. My hardware: AMD A8-7600 ASRock FM2A88X Pro3+ 32Gb RAM DDR3 1600 Crusial Blistix Sport CL9 (2kits of 2x8GB) 16Gb USB3 for FreeNAS HDD's will...

Hello, I have 4 vdevs of 6 4TB drives each that have been created with an ashift value of 9. The drives are native 512 byte block sized. I want to add to this pool 4 vdevs of 10 8TB drives. The new drives are native 4K block size. I understand there are performance issues when adding to...