Hi!
Very noob here! Been using FreeNAS for all of 1 week now and absolutely LOVE it! I am migrating from 2 RAID 0 NAS boxes with 2x 3TB drives each to a FreeNAS server. I had 2 spare 3TB drives so here is what I have done so far:
Installed the 2 spare 3TB drives in the FreeNAS server and set up a mirror pool. I am assuming that is essentially the same as my RAID 0 NAS boxes since the pool size was the same as 1 3TB drive? Then I installed Windows in a VM on FreeNAS and used FreeFileSync to copy everything from one of my RAID 0 NAS boxes to the FreeNAS pool.
What I wanted to do was then take the 2 3TB drives from the old NAS box and add them as striped drives to the existing mirrored pool. I wanted to end up with 2 3TB drives striped to a 6TB pool and mirrored onto the second pair of 3TB drives also striped to 6TB. But I couldn't figure out how to do that. So I ended up creating a second mirrored pool with those two drives and I am now copying the contents of the second RAID 0 NAS box to that pool.
Once the second NAS box has been copied, I'll have the 3TB drives free from it. So is there a way to do what I originally hoped to do? Extend one of the mirrored pools to the free pair of drives to end up with 2 drives striped together mirrored with 2 other drives striped together?
Thank you!
Very Respectfully,
John
Very noob here! Been using FreeNAS for all of 1 week now and absolutely LOVE it! I am migrating from 2 RAID 0 NAS boxes with 2x 3TB drives each to a FreeNAS server. I had 2 spare 3TB drives so here is what I have done so far:
Installed the 2 spare 3TB drives in the FreeNAS server and set up a mirror pool. I am assuming that is essentially the same as my RAID 0 NAS boxes since the pool size was the same as 1 3TB drive? Then I installed Windows in a VM on FreeNAS and used FreeFileSync to copy everything from one of my RAID 0 NAS boxes to the FreeNAS pool.
What I wanted to do was then take the 2 3TB drives from the old NAS box and add them as striped drives to the existing mirrored pool. I wanted to end up with 2 3TB drives striped to a 6TB pool and mirrored onto the second pair of 3TB drives also striped to 6TB. But I couldn't figure out how to do that. So I ended up creating a second mirrored pool with those two drives and I am now copying the contents of the second RAID 0 NAS box to that pool.
Once the second NAS box has been copied, I'll have the 3TB drives free from it. So is there a way to do what I originally hoped to do? Extend one of the mirrored pools to the free pair of drives to end up with 2 drives striped together mirrored with 2 other drives striped together?
Thank you!
Very Respectfully,
John