Need guide to set up RAID 10 in Freenas 8.3

[aran kaspar]

I think that the odds are in favor of you not needing to go to back-up. But, for greater peace of mind, you could do test runs of restoring data from your back-ups and document the process before you put the system into live use.

Yeah I think you're right. Never a bad idea to test and doc backup.
I think I'm good as long as I don't have a failure on the pair of mirrored drives... on either side of the strip.

 

[Alex L.]

It's just odd that no one has a clear answer here. Why can't someone just say when you extend the volume do you choose "mirror" or "stripe" ? or does it not matter ?

 

[indivision]

If your goal is to create a RAID 10 setup, you choose "mirror" in step 2. It does matter quite a bit.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Correct you choose mirror to keep your redundancy. If you choose stripe all protection is lost.

 

[Alex L.]

Thank you very much for the clarification.

 

[aran kaspar]

sorry to dig up an old thread...

does this volume status look right?
I've heard that some people do a mirror then later add another mirror.
I just set it up in one fell swoop.

 

[Bidule0hm]

If you want striped mirrors then yes it's OK ;)

 

[SweetAndLow]

sorry to dig up an old thread...

does this volume status look right?
I've heard that some people do a mirror then later add another mirror.
I just set it up in one fell swoop.

Looks fine

 

[aran kaspar]

If you want striped mirrors then yes it's OK ;)

Well, That's Raid10 right?

 

[Bidule0hm]

It's similar, yes.