I'm pretty good with windows, but a noob in linux etc. While I've read several explanations, I do not adequately understand vdevs, pools or ZFS.
I currently run a 4TB + 1TB HDDs as a spanned volume on windows 10 as a home server and run a backup weekly to secondary drives all over my network. Also, I've have set up a mirrored raid with different drive sizes (1TB + 500GB mirrored to 1TB + 500GB) on a windows PC without issue.
I have FreeNAS running on a PC where I thought I could mirror two sets of drives. A 4TB + 1TB drive pool mirrored to another 4TB + 1TB pool, but FreeNAS gives me the following when I attempt to set this up: "Mixing disks of different sizes in a VDEV is not recommended".
I'd like to not have to buy more drives plus I have extra 1TB drives lying around, but I'm going to run out of SATA connectors on the mobo.
Any suggestions?
I currently run a 4TB + 1TB HDDs as a spanned volume on windows 10 as a home server and run a backup weekly to secondary drives all over my network. Also, I've have set up a mirrored raid with different drive sizes (1TB + 500GB mirrored to 1TB + 500GB) on a windows PC without issue.
I have FreeNAS running on a PC where I thought I could mirror two sets of drives. A 4TB + 1TB drive pool mirrored to another 4TB + 1TB pool, but FreeNAS gives me the following when I attempt to set this up: "Mixing disks of different sizes in a VDEV is not recommended".
I'd like to not have to buy more drives plus I have extra 1TB drives lying around, but I'm going to run out of SATA connectors on the mobo.
- can I use this drive combination (4TB + 1TB mirrored to 4TB + 1TB)?
- how should this be created in FreeNAS (ie two pools, one pool)?
Any suggestions?