BigPapaPSP
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- Jan 24, 2019
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I have been using FreeNas a few months with much success. I have a single RAIDZ2 pool consisting of 4 drives -- All identical 10TB drives. I am running low on space, and want to expand or extend this pool..
My server has 6 hotswap bays and four of the six occupy my existing 4-drive RAIDZ2 pool. I thought I could add a 5th 10TB identical drive and add it to that RAIDZ2 pool that already exists. Is this NOT the case? The last thing I want is to add this drive and for it to show up as a single striped drive and not part of the redundancy of my RAIDZ2.
I looks like any of these steps are irreversible -- So....I figured I better post this for confirmation of what my options are.
Thanks in advance.
Dj
My server has 6 hotswap bays and four of the six occupy my existing 4-drive RAIDZ2 pool. I thought I could add a 5th 10TB identical drive and add it to that RAIDZ2 pool that already exists. Is this NOT the case? The last thing I want is to add this drive and for it to show up as a single striped drive and not part of the redundancy of my RAIDZ2.
I looks like any of these steps are irreversible -- So....I figured I better post this for confirmation of what my options are.
Thanks in advance.
Dj