expand zpool

  1. Guinea

    Expanding Storage

    I built a FreeNAS system using a 24 bay chassis. Due to the pricing, I only did my initial configuration with 8 WD Red HDDs. I am looking to expand to another 8 or 16 possibly, but wasn't sure how to go about it with my current configuration without causing any issues. I am running a Plex...
    • Guinea
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    • expand zpool
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    • Forum: Storage
  2. Cronus94

    Adding storage to server.

    Hi All, This may have been asked before so forgive me if it has. I am fairly new to freenas so be gentle. I have a server that has 4 x 4tb WD Reds set up in RaidZ2 (usuable 7tb) and I'm running out of space (roughly 2tb left). Given the amount of time it has taken me to fill up 5tb im sure it...
    • Cronus94
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    • expand zpool storage volume
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    • Forum: Storage
  3. D

    SOLVED Replaced 2TB drives in vdev mirror with 4TB drives - no increase in capacity

    I had a faulty drive appear on my system and as my usage was getting quite high, I decided to buy 2x 4TB drives to replace the damaged drive and its pair in a 2x 2TB mirrored vdev. The vdev is part of a zpool consisting of 2x 4TB and 8x 2TB drives, all run as mirrored pairs. From the...
  4. N

    Any alternative to destroying the pool

    I have a box with 4 x 6TB drives in RAIDZ2 that I want to expand to 8 x 6TB drives in RAIDZ2. AFAIK I have to destroy/recreate the pool and reload everything from backup. Is there any alternative that I might have missed? I'm looking at a day or so downtime, and a bit of risk, so I'd love to...
  5. Kennyvb8

    expand raid somehow?!

    Hey there dont know what went wrong but somehow i'm not using the Full potential size of my raid look at the screenshot is there anyway i can expand so that the dataset uses the full raid ? also the Md0 at top is actully on 14TB (7x2tb) disks?!? where is all my space?! i think i'm useing 1...
    • Kennyvb8
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    • expand expand zpool raid
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Storage
  6. S

    Enhancing a pool of mirrors - can I add extra disks in these ways?

    I've tried to research this but can't find an answer, with luck someone here will know. My new server will have its pool built as a set of mirrored HDDs. I would want to stick with mirrored HDD vdevs, or at most mirrored 2-way stripes, rather than RAIDZ, due to read+resilver speed/resilver...
    • Stilez
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    • disk usage expand zpool mirror stripe
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Storage
  7. J

    Migrating to a new server with HDD expand

    Dear community, A few months back I built my first FreeNAS box. For that I've used a Dell T20 (E3-1225v3) with 12GB of ECC RAM and my main RAIDZ consisting of 3*4TB Seagate NAS HDDs. The server still works 100%, with +160 days of uptime. The only issue I have is with the upgrade from 9.3 to 9.1...
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