TheRaiu
Cadet
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2014
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Hi there FreeNAS community!!
Im a new the community and i have quite a predicament.
My NAS is projected for a total of 8 disks, but i have only bought 4 of them as of now.
While reading up on this on various forums i has become apparent to me that expanding a vdev with more disks might be a litte problematic.
So my question is, if it's possible to perhaps create the vdev with something similiar to 4 "ghost" (drives that only exist virtually but dont have any function if this function actually exist) drives so the vdev have all the 8 drives which i had planned for so i can expand it easily in the future.
Or should i hold of on creating the vdev until i have all the drives in my hand?
Another alternative might perhaps be to create two vdev in the pool, each with 4 disks. But wont i be loosing storage capacity using this solution?
Best Regards
TheRaiu
Im a new the community and i have quite a predicament.
My NAS is projected for a total of 8 disks, but i have only bought 4 of them as of now.
While reading up on this on various forums i has become apparent to me that expanding a vdev with more disks might be a litte problematic.
So my question is, if it's possible to perhaps create the vdev with something similiar to 4 "ghost" (drives that only exist virtually but dont have any function if this function actually exist) drives so the vdev have all the 8 drives which i had planned for so i can expand it easily in the future.
Or should i hold of on creating the vdev until i have all the drives in my hand?
Another alternative might perhaps be to create two vdev in the pool, each with 4 disks. But wont i be loosing storage capacity using this solution?
Best Regards
TheRaiu