Hello, I am fairly new to FreeNAS.
I've started off with a 'noob' configuration with a pentium, and 2x3tb disks, striped with no backup. (Don't crucify me, at least I still had a backup of the important files)
Anyway, so I have just made a new setup with a workstation mobo, 16gb ecc ram, xeon and I have 5x3tb disks in total.
So my pickle is, those 5 are made up of the 2 I already had striped for storage. I am not sure on how to make a raidz configuration resulting in using all 5 disks and not have a left over that I have had to copy everything onto then finally onto what would only be a 4 disk array pool.
So what are my options?
(FYI - Currently my data can all fit on one disk-- well I can make it fit since there are disposable files I can re download or live without.)
I thought I could add the other 3 disks to my current striped array to make raidz but when I try to add the 3 disks I get the error:
Or will I have to copy it all onto one disk, make a 4 disk array then copy what I have onto the array, and then add the last disk?
Or what other options are there. I dont really want to be stuck with an odd drive in the end.
Any suggestions on a solution to upload all my data to the internet for free (or a small price) to re-download to my 5 disk array afterward?
Thanks in advance!
I've started off with a 'noob' configuration with a pentium, and 2x3tb disks, striped with no backup. (Don't crucify me, at least I still had a backup of the important files)
Anyway, so I have just made a new setup with a workstation mobo, 16gb ecc ram, xeon and I have 5x3tb disks in total.
So my pickle is, those 5 are made up of the 2 I already had striped for storage. I am not sure on how to make a raidz configuration resulting in using all 5 disks and not have a left over that I have had to copy everything onto then finally onto what would only be a 4 disk array pool.
So what are my options?
(FYI - Currently my data can all fit on one disk-- well I can make it fit since there are disposable files I can re download or live without.)
I thought I could add the other 3 disks to my current striped array to make raidz but when I try to add the 3 disks I get the error:
- You are trying to add a virtual device of type 'raidz' in a pool that has a virtual device of type 'stripe'.
Or will I have to copy it all onto one disk, make a 4 disk array then copy what I have onto the array, and then add the last disk?
Or what other options are there. I dont really want to be stuck with an odd drive in the end.
Any suggestions on a solution to upload all my data to the internet for free (or a small price) to re-download to my 5 disk array afterward?
Thanks in advance!