_Shin_
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- Aug 2, 2014
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Hi everyone,
my system currently have an encrypted zpool with 6x4TB disks, in a raidz2 configuration.
The capacity of the volume is currently at 86% and I need more disk space.
The six disks currently saturates all six of my motherboard SATA ports.
The boot drive is currently a USB stick.
So far I've bought 6 new 10TB HDDs, and an SSD I plan to use as the new boot drive.
I have also bought a SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA LSI 9207 card, in order to free the on-board SATA ports, then use one for the SSD boot.
Q1)What do you suggest is the best course of action?
Grow the current pool by replacing and resilvering all of the 6 disks one at a time?
(add new disk on the HBA - replace disk in pool - wait for resilver - remove old disk)
Or just slap the 6 news disks on the new controller, make a new pool and copy the data from the old one?
One one hand I read that the resilvering way is best for data integrity.
On the other hand I am worried to mess up something because of the encryption, and it also takes more time.
bonus question:
Q2) are the 32GB of RAM still enough with a 6x10TB pool? The system will be used just for backups, archiving, and media center (plex/transmission/radarr/sonarr/etc)
Thank you
my system currently have an encrypted zpool with 6x4TB disks, in a raidz2 configuration.
The capacity of the volume is currently at 86% and I need more disk space.
The six disks currently saturates all six of my motherboard SATA ports.
The boot drive is currently a USB stick.
So far I've bought 6 new 10TB HDDs, and an SSD I plan to use as the new boot drive.
I have also bought a SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA LSI 9207 card, in order to free the on-board SATA ports, then use one for the SSD boot.
Q1)What do you suggest is the best course of action?
Grow the current pool by replacing and resilvering all of the 6 disks one at a time?
(add new disk on the HBA - replace disk in pool - wait for resilver - remove old disk)
Or just slap the 6 news disks on the new controller, make a new pool and copy the data from the old one?
One one hand I read that the resilvering way is best for data integrity.
On the other hand I am worried to mess up something because of the encryption, and it also takes more time.
bonus question:
Q2) are the 32GB of RAM still enough with a 6x10TB pool? The system will be used just for backups, archiving, and media center (plex/transmission/radarr/sonarr/etc)
Thank you