georgelza
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hi guys
I got a pool called "tank" at the moment created out of 3 x 4TB IronWolf drives.
so I've got a faulty on board controller at the moment, with 2 ports that not "to be trusted"
Got 3 x 4TB IronWolf drives spare.
First option is to add these additional 3 HDD's to the "tank" pool. I've "heard" mention of zvol's, I also see the little gear, with expand pool option.
How are these used, if they the same size as the disks in the pool, then I understand they completely utilised and the pool expanded from 3->5 HDD's, do they get created into their own raidz grouping and then the avail space added to the pool ? or is the raidz pool itself grown from 3->5 hdd's
If they larger, lets say I want to add 2 x 8TB HDD, is only the first 4TB utilised ? or is the 2 drives configured into a RaidZ group themselves and then the available space added to the pool ?
G
I got a pool called "tank" at the moment created out of 3 x 4TB IronWolf drives.
so I've got a faulty on board controller at the moment, with 2 ports that not "to be trusted"
Got 3 x 4TB IronWolf drives spare.
First option is to add these additional 3 HDD's to the "tank" pool. I've "heard" mention of zvol's, I also see the little gear, with expand pool option.
How are these used, if they the same size as the disks in the pool, then I understand they completely utilised and the pool expanded from 3->5 HDD's, do they get created into their own raidz grouping and then the avail space added to the pool ? or is the raidz pool itself grown from 3->5 hdd's
If they larger, lets say I want to add 2 x 8TB HDD, is only the first 4TB utilised ? or is the 2 drives configured into a RaidZ group themselves and then the available space added to the pool ?
G