justforplex
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- Jan 20, 2021
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Basic question: I want to add drives every so often to a Nas setup Im using solely for plex at home. I have backups for the movies and tv shows from the donor disks, so not really concerned with redundancy. What is the simplest pool/vdev/disk arrangement to allow for gradual adding in of new drives as space is needed?
I currently have one dataset and one pool, with one 2tb drive. The Nas software boots off a small 40gb drive I had laying around. I am now adding one more 2tb drive but unsure how to do it, exactly.
I have searched and gleaned that adding to my existing pool will work, but give me no redundancy, and Im fine with that. This isnt a professional thing, its just extra movies for home use. I dont care to dump a bunch of money into bunches of drives, etc. I did the initial setup with help of a youtube video or two, but cant find current help there anymore. Searches for adding a drive to nas dont seem to turn up much current advice (nothing in posts from older threads seems to match up to my menus and config options as nas has evolved). I realize most of you on this forum are more ambitious users, I just wanted a plex server that doesnt run off my windows machine, so I am trying this.
Figured someone here might have similar, simple needs as myself? How do you add a disk, the simple way?
I currently have one dataset and one pool, with one 2tb drive. The Nas software boots off a small 40gb drive I had laying around. I am now adding one more 2tb drive but unsure how to do it, exactly.
I have searched and gleaned that adding to my existing pool will work, but give me no redundancy, and Im fine with that. This isnt a professional thing, its just extra movies for home use. I dont care to dump a bunch of money into bunches of drives, etc. I did the initial setup with help of a youtube video or two, but cant find current help there anymore. Searches for adding a drive to nas dont seem to turn up much current advice (nothing in posts from older threads seems to match up to my menus and config options as nas has evolved). I realize most of you on this forum are more ambitious users, I just wanted a plex server that doesnt run off my windows machine, so I am trying this.
Figured someone here might have similar, simple needs as myself? How do you add a disk, the simple way?