About to add 11 6tb drives into my pool

[philhu]

I will expand the volume, so I know it adds the 11 drives as another vdev, and I know it can lose the whole pool if it fails. That is why both pools are raidZ3

So 11x4tb drives, 8 useable
and 11x6tb drives, 8 useable


Going to pull the trigger tonight. Anything I missed?

 

[Spearfoot]

Did you burn-in your hard drives?

 

[philhu]

Yes, did smart tests, tmux and badblocks over last 4 days

 

[Spearfoot]

Then... fire it up!

 

[maglin]

Won't the 6TiB drives only have 4TiB capacity being attached to the pool with all 4TiB drives? Until the 4TiB drives are upgraded to 6TiB.


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[Spearfoot]

Won't the 6TiB drives only have 4TiB capacity being attached to the pool with all 4TiB drives? Until the 4TiB drives are upgraded to 6TiB.

No, sir -- because the 4TiB and 6TiB drives are in separate vdevs.

 

[maglin]

My bad. That is good to hear. I'm about to add 6 drives to one of my pools then. It's only drives in a vdev that will be the capacity of the smallest drive.


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[philhu]

What he said. :)

NAS now has 72 TB. Used went from 74% to 29%

Yay