sharkbyte47
Cadet
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- Oct 17, 2014
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Hi,
I´m setting up my NAS and figured I would like to create my Jail Root on a seperate pool so my storage can spin down.
At the moment I would like to use a spare 80GB 2,5" HDD which has no better use. As soon as I get my hands on a pair of cheap SSDs I would like to replace the HDD with this SSDs.
80GB seems overkill for the JailRoot and I think a mirror of, let´s say two 32-40GB SSDs, would suffice.
Question 1:
Can I partition the HDD before install to 30GB and create a vDev of that and afterwards add the first SSD in mirror and replace the HDD by the second SSD after resilvering?
I have 2 WD Red 3TB in mirror but would love to add a third in the future.
Question 2:
Should I reduce the disk size by some bytes to make sure a 3TB drive from another manufacturer, which could be a tiny bit smaller, will also fit?
I know especially the second question seems obvious and should be answered before, but I couldn´t find any help for the current FreeNAS version.
Thanks for your time, greatly appreciated!
I´m setting up my NAS and figured I would like to create my Jail Root on a seperate pool so my storage can spin down.
At the moment I would like to use a spare 80GB 2,5" HDD which has no better use. As soon as I get my hands on a pair of cheap SSDs I would like to replace the HDD with this SSDs.
80GB seems overkill for the JailRoot and I think a mirror of, let´s say two 32-40GB SSDs, would suffice.
Question 1:
Can I partition the HDD before install to 30GB and create a vDev of that and afterwards add the first SSD in mirror and replace the HDD by the second SSD after resilvering?
I have 2 WD Red 3TB in mirror but would love to add a third in the future.
Question 2:
Should I reduce the disk size by some bytes to make sure a 3TB drive from another manufacturer, which could be a tiny bit smaller, will also fit?
I know especially the second question seems obvious and should be answered before, but I couldn´t find any help for the current FreeNAS version.
Thanks for your time, greatly appreciated!