MrHands
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probably a noob question, but i cant seem to find a concrete answer on this.
I have a three 4TB RAIDZ1 array in my server, i planned on going to RAIDZ2 and now have the extra drive to run four 4TB drives.
Problem is, i have around 3,7TB of data on my server right now and the only spare drives i have large enough to move the data off the array so i can rebuild it in RADIZ2, are the drives i'm using in the server.
Is it possible to create RAIDZ2 using the existing three drives (1 drive in operation, and 2 redundant), so that i can use the new drive i purchased to backup the 3,7TB of data i have? then once the RAIDZ2 array has been created, i could copy all the data to the array, format the 4th drive and then add it to the array so its running with four drives as recommended?
I have a three 4TB RAIDZ1 array in my server, i planned on going to RAIDZ2 and now have the extra drive to run four 4TB drives.
Problem is, i have around 3,7TB of data on my server right now and the only spare drives i have large enough to move the data off the array so i can rebuild it in RADIZ2, are the drives i'm using in the server.
Is it possible to create RAIDZ2 using the existing three drives (1 drive in operation, and 2 redundant), so that i can use the new drive i purchased to backup the 3,7TB of data i have? then once the RAIDZ2 array has been created, i could copy all the data to the array, format the 4th drive and then add it to the array so its running with four drives as recommended?