add disk mirror existing zpool

  1. Devin Acosta

    FreeNAS zPool adding disk question.

    I am purchasing an HP DL380g8 with 12 drive bays. I want to start off by doing a raidZ2 with 4 drives, then have the ability to add a single drive to the pool for space, not caring about having additional redundancy. Is it possible to create a raidZ2 pool with 4 drives, and just add drives to...
    • Devin Acosta
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    • add disk mirror existing zpool configuration raidz2
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  2. R

    Adding new disk to mirror existing zpool - stripe

    Hi! After searching and trying multiple different approaches I've decided to ask the pros. I have a newly installed freenas setup which contains a JBOD pool and in it a few datasets containing all my data. This is called HomeVol and consists of 5 drives: 1 6TB and 4 500GB drives which comes to...
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