ciacnorris
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Hello, I'm preparing to set up my first TrueNAS Community system on an old N36L Microserver with 8GB RAM.
I have an old 3TB disk that I would like to use, and I can buy a couple of 4TB disks (their cost is more or less the same of the 3TB disks so they are the sweet spot on a price/space point of view).
The first option that comes to my mind is to use 3TB on each disk to creat a RAIDZ1, then use the remaining 1TB on the two 4TB hard drives to create a 1TB mirror. Is this configuration possible?
I have set up a TrueNAS installation in Virtualbox to test it but the system isn't allowing me to mix disks of different sizes in a pool. I'm a total noob so I don't understand if I'm missing some steps or this is just not possible.
If what I want to do is impossible, what would you suggest me, provided that I already have a 3TB drive, that I could buy 4TB drives and that the N36L has a total space for 4 drives (or 5, if I use a USB stick for the operating system)?
I have an old 3TB disk that I would like to use, and I can buy a couple of 4TB disks (their cost is more or less the same of the 3TB disks so they are the sweet spot on a price/space point of view).
The first option that comes to my mind is to use 3TB on each disk to creat a RAIDZ1, then use the remaining 1TB on the two 4TB hard drives to create a 1TB mirror. Is this configuration possible?
I have set up a TrueNAS installation in Virtualbox to test it but the system isn't allowing me to mix disks of different sizes in a pool. I'm a total noob so I don't understand if I'm missing some steps or this is just not possible.
If what I want to do is impossible, what would you suggest me, provided that I already have a 3TB drive, that I could buy 4TB drives and that the N36L has a total space for 4 drives (or 5, if I use a USB stick for the operating system)?