twentyseven
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I have a 5x2TB WD Red ZFS Freenas
Build FreeNAS-9.3-CURRENT-201503161938
Platform AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor
Memory 7909MB
I need to replace one of the disks, and this is slightly out of my comfort level. I have a replacement 3TB WD Red drive that I would like to use in place of the failing 2TB drive. My plan is that over the next 12 months, I will replace all the drives with 3TB (I am in no hurry). The documentation is clear on how to replace, but where larger capacity drives are involved it seems to suggest a scenario where I should use an open SATA port, but I don't have one.
I want to do the following:
1. Power off
2. Replace the drive (i.e. remove the 2TB and put the 3TB on the same slot)
3. Let it resliver
I assume that only 2TB of the new 3TB drive will be used for the RAID (and the 1TB will be unusable). I am hoping that when all 5 drives are replaced with 3TB drives, I will get back the unused 1TB on each drive.
Are my assumptions correct? Is there a better approach?
Thanks in advance.
Build FreeNAS-9.3-CURRENT-201503161938
Platform AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor
Memory 7909MB
I need to replace one of the disks, and this is slightly out of my comfort level. I have a replacement 3TB WD Red drive that I would like to use in place of the failing 2TB drive. My plan is that over the next 12 months, I will replace all the drives with 3TB (I am in no hurry). The documentation is clear on how to replace, but where larger capacity drives are involved it seems to suggest a scenario where I should use an open SATA port, but I don't have one.
I want to do the following:
1. Power off
2. Replace the drive (i.e. remove the 2TB and put the 3TB on the same slot)
3. Let it resliver
I assume that only 2TB of the new 3TB drive will be used for the RAID (and the 1TB will be unusable). I am hoping that when all 5 drives are replaced with 3TB drives, I will get back the unused 1TB on each drive.
Are my assumptions correct? Is there a better approach?
Thanks in advance.