KenwoodFox
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- Nov 6, 2018
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While I'm waiting to fillup my storage shelf with more drives to expand my archive pool I've been putting the drives I've not yet used in and keeping them around as spares, I have 3 vdevs of 500gb drives, and one of my spares was a 3tb, I was expecting to add the 3tb and 5 other 500gb drives into the fourth vdev.
However in vdev2, a drive failed and my spare kicked in, no worries, I was hoping to just make my spare a member of vdev2 but I couldn't figure out how to do it so I just used another drive to replace it.
Now I'm being told by a friend that I cant have drives of different sizes in a vdev, I tried it out quickly and got this error
But my 3tb drive was able to step in as a spare drive and bring the pool back online, so it is possible to use drives of a bigger size?
Are there workarounds to get around this error?
I also tried replacing a working drive with my 3tb through the GUI and the 3tb did not show up as an available drive even when I removed it from spare.
Thanks for reading.
However in vdev2, a drive failed and my spare kicked in, no worries, I was hoping to just make my spare a member of vdev2 but I couldn't figure out how to do it so I just used another drive to replace it.
Now I'm being told by a friend that I cant have drives of different sizes in a vdev, I tried it out quickly and got this error
Code:
Mixing disks of different sizes in a VDEV is not allowed.
But my 3tb drive was able to step in as a spare drive and bring the pool back online, so it is possible to use drives of a bigger size?
Are there workarounds to get around this error?
I also tried replacing a working drive with my 3tb through the GUI and the 3tb did not show up as an available drive even when I removed it from spare.
Thanks for reading.