Hey all,
so I am looking to build my first FreeNAS build and wanted to clarify something about ZFS and how to expand later on down the road. I currently am looking at a 6 drive array with 8tb disks. However, I cannot afford the 8 tb disks right now. I plan on running ZRaid 2.
Would it be better to build a 6 drive with 1 or 2 tb drives to get started and then later when I can afford the 8 tb drives, replace them 1 by 1 until all 6 drives are 8tb?
The plan being that since a vdev is created with a specific amount of disks and can't be expanded afterwards with out striping across multiple vdevs losing a layer of drive safety, does creating a lower capacity pool first populating all my slots first and then upgrading drives later seem worth it? Or is there a better upgrade path that I don't know about?
Also, what do you all think of WD Gold "enterprise" drives? Are they any better or worse than WD Red drives for this application?
I found these threads, but it didn't quite give me the answer I was looking for. Thanks in advance! Any help?
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...ion-after-expanding-volume.42871/#post-279801
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/advice-on-adding-drives-expanding-a-pool.71521/
so I am looking to build my first FreeNAS build and wanted to clarify something about ZFS and how to expand later on down the road. I currently am looking at a 6 drive array with 8tb disks. However, I cannot afford the 8 tb disks right now. I plan on running ZRaid 2.
Would it be better to build a 6 drive with 1 or 2 tb drives to get started and then later when I can afford the 8 tb drives, replace them 1 by 1 until all 6 drives are 8tb?
The plan being that since a vdev is created with a specific amount of disks and can't be expanded afterwards with out striping across multiple vdevs losing a layer of drive safety, does creating a lower capacity pool first populating all my slots first and then upgrading drives later seem worth it? Or is there a better upgrade path that I don't know about?
Also, what do you all think of WD Gold "enterprise" drives? Are they any better or worse than WD Red drives for this application?
I found these threads, but it didn't quite give me the answer I was looking for. Thanks in advance! Any help?
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...ion-after-expanding-volume.42871/#post-279801
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/advice-on-adding-drives-expanding-a-pool.71521/