Hi guys!
I'm running a small nasbox that earlier had 4x2TB drives in RAIDZ1. I know I should have 3, 5 or 9 drives for RAIDZ1. But that was my setup.
Now I was running low on space. So I've changed the drives one by one and now it's running 4x4TB drives.
And I wanted to add another drive for a total of 5x4TB, thinking that would be OK to do as it is more suitable for RAIDZ1...? (I will eventually make this a RAIDZ2 when I'm ready though)
But for now RAIDZ1 will have to do. I feel my backups is good enough.
So I added another drive to the system. Went to Storage, Volumes, Volume Manager, Manual Setup. I choose my Volume to Extend and my new Disk and pressed "Add Volume".
But my Available space didn't change. So I checked under Volume Status and it looks like this.
MainRaid
If it isn't possible to add it I might have to format it all and go raidz2 instead, in a bit. Can I remove the stripe and put it as a spare instead for the time being?
Thanks guys! All the best
I'm running a small nasbox that earlier had 4x2TB drives in RAIDZ1. I know I should have 3, 5 or 9 drives for RAIDZ1. But that was my setup.
Now I was running low on space. So I've changed the drives one by one and now it's running 4x4TB drives.
And I wanted to add another drive for a total of 5x4TB, thinking that would be OK to do as it is more suitable for RAIDZ1...? (I will eventually make this a RAIDZ2 when I'm ready though)
But for now RAIDZ1 will have to do. I feel my backups is good enough.
So I added another drive to the system. Went to Storage, Volumes, Volume Manager, Manual Setup. I choose my Volume to Extend and my new Disk and pressed "Add Volume".
But my Available space didn't change. So I checked under Volume Status and it looks like this.
MainRaid
stripe
Shouldn't I be able to add this drive to the raidz1-0? What good does it do right now as "stripe"?ada3p2 (new drive)
raidz1-0ada4p2
ada1p2
ada2p2
ada0p2
ada1p2
ada2p2
ada0p2
If it isn't possible to add it I might have to format it all and go raidz2 instead, in a bit. Can I remove the stripe and put it as a spare instead for the time being?
Thanks guys! All the best