I'd like to move to FreeNAS for my home storage server. I have lots of hard drives with different sizes, from 200GB to 2000GB. When using windows, I was able to create dynamic disks and create spanned volumes and expand these volumes when needed. so when FreeNAS, I can do
1. Spanned Volume. Concatenate hard drives and expand the size. And how the ZFS/UFS works when one drive fails. Will I be able to access other drives individually (which I can in windows, I just lose the data on that failed drive). I don't need RAID for this.
2. RAID setup. In Windows, I can create RAID1 volume by using 2 equal sized partitions. My hard drives can be in any size and I'm able to use them to create RAID0/RAID1, can I do this in FreeNAS.
Thanks,
Kevin.
1. Spanned Volume. Concatenate hard drives and expand the size. And how the ZFS/UFS works when one drive fails. Will I be able to access other drives individually (which I can in windows, I just lose the data on that failed drive). I don't need RAID for this.
2. RAID setup. In Windows, I can create RAID1 volume by using 2 equal sized partitions. My hard drives can be in any size and I'm able to use them to create RAID0/RAID1, can I do this in FreeNAS.
Thanks,
Kevin.