rmccullough
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I have a Supermicro 2U (CSE-826A-R1200LPB) 12x 3.5" Drive Bays and Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+. This motherboard has 2 SATA 3.0 connections on it.
I currently have a single pool made up of 9 drives configured in RAIDz2. I am looking to build a new pool with 6-8 drives, and then migrate my data.
With RAIDz2, my understanding is that I can remove 2 drives and the pool will still be usable. Would it be possible for me to do this:
In step 10, will it automatically re-build that drive when I add it back?
If I cannot do this, I would need to use the onboard SATA 3.0 connectors temporarily. Is this a better option? I was hoping to not need to crack the case to do this.
I currently have a single pool made up of 9 drives configured in RAIDz2. I am looking to build a new pool with 6-8 drives, and then migrate my data.
With RAIDz2, my understanding is that I can remove 2 drives and the pool will still be usable. Would it be possible for me to do this:
- Unload current pool (pool1)
- remove 3 drives from pool1 (providing 6 empty drive bays)
- insert 6 new drives
- use 6 new drives to create a new pool2
- remove 1 drive from pool2
- add 1 drive from pool1 back (removed in step 2)
- Load pool1 (in a degraded state, missing 2 drives)
- copy data from pool1 > pool2
- unload pool1
- put 1 drive back for pool2 (step 5)
In step 10, will it automatically re-build that drive when I add it back?
If I cannot do this, I would need to use the onboard SATA 3.0 connectors temporarily. Is this a better option? I was hoping to not need to crack the case to do this.