DavidIrwin
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I am in a slightly tricky situation with my new FreeNAS setup. The 4Tb disks I am installing into it are coming from an existing system and all contain data (which I want to move to the FreeNAS). As a result i have had to:
1. Setup freeNAS installed on 32Gb USB drive (mirrored to microSD card - I was going to do without the USB but advice on here is fairly direct about that!)
2. Install an old 2Tb drive and move the first 1.5Tb of data (this frees up sufficient space on the existing system to remove a 4Tb drive)
3. install the 4Tb drive into the FreeNAS
{this is where I am up to}
4. expand the volume
5. move more data to free up next 4Tb disk
5. install next 4tb disk...
{etc}
I will eventually have 3x 4Tb disks in the freeNAS system with space for a 4th at a later date.
My question is will this process result in the volume using the disks purely in a stripe setup with no resilience, or as I add the 3rd disk will I be able to configure to RAIDZ1?
Also up to a point I will have disks of different sizes (the older 2Tb drive being the first one I have added), I need to manage the data to allow me to remove this disk: Should I therefore create a new volume on the 4Tb disks and copy/move all the data to that volume rather than adding disks of different sizes to a volume?
Thank you
David
1. Setup freeNAS installed on 32Gb USB drive (mirrored to microSD card - I was going to do without the USB but advice on here is fairly direct about that!)
2. Install an old 2Tb drive and move the first 1.5Tb of data (this frees up sufficient space on the existing system to remove a 4Tb drive)
3. install the 4Tb drive into the FreeNAS
{this is where I am up to}
4. expand the volume
5. move more data to free up next 4Tb disk
5. install next 4tb disk...
{etc}
I will eventually have 3x 4Tb disks in the freeNAS system with space for a 4th at a later date.
My question is will this process result in the volume using the disks purely in a stripe setup with no resilience, or as I add the 3rd disk will I be able to configure to RAIDZ1?
Also up to a point I will have disks of different sizes (the older 2Tb drive being the first one I have added), I need to manage the data to allow me to remove this disk: Should I therefore create a new volume on the 4Tb disks and copy/move all the data to that volume rather than adding disks of different sizes to a volume?
Thank you
David