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Hi All,
I have an existing FREENAS box with 1x500GB and 1x1TB running in a RAID1 MIRROR.
I have an additional 3x1TB drives to go into the box.
I would like to setup a RAIDZ2 arrangement but need to utilise the existing 1x1TB drive in the utilised MIRROR to get the Z2 parity.
What options/steps would you take to achieve this?
My intention currently is to try and copy everything off to an external drive, break the mirror to pinch the 1Tb drive back, build the RAIDZ2 pool with the 4x1TB drives and then copy everything back into the NAS. The complexity of having data in a PLEX jail and the copying out, then creating the new jail in the new pool and copying back sounds time consuming though....
All help gratefully received.
I have an existing FREENAS box with 1x500GB and 1x1TB running in a RAID1 MIRROR.
I have an additional 3x1TB drives to go into the box.
I would like to setup a RAIDZ2 arrangement but need to utilise the existing 1x1TB drive in the utilised MIRROR to get the Z2 parity.
What options/steps would you take to achieve this?
My intention currently is to try and copy everything off to an external drive, break the mirror to pinch the 1Tb drive back, build the RAIDZ2 pool with the 4x1TB drives and then copy everything back into the NAS. The complexity of having data in a PLEX jail and the copying out, then creating the new jail in the new pool and copying back sounds time consuming though....
All help gratefully received.