Adding additional drives; what to consider

[Elegant]

Hi guys, I am currently using a 6x6TB drives in a RAIDZ2 and am looking at adding an additional 6x8TB in RAIDZ2 to my setup. The use case is primarily for 5 or so home users to stream media or store data on the home shares. My current memory usage is set at 36GB. I'm not trying to bring up the whole memory debate but given the use case, has anyone found there to be issue? Is there anything else I should consider before adding additional drives to the zpool? Thanks!

 

[SweetAndLow]

Hi guys, I am currently using a 6x6TB drives in a RAIDZ2 and am looking at adding an additional 6x8TB in RAIDZ2 to my setup. The use case is primarily for 5 or so home users to stream media or store data on the home shares. My current memory usage is set at 36GB. I'm not trying to bring up the whole memory debate but given the use case, has anyone found there to be issue? Is there anything else I should consider before adding additional drives to the zpool? Thanks!

Not really. Your memory is fine and just make sure you add things correctly in the GUI because you can't change it once you add it.

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