Srikanth K Kota
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jul 20, 2017
- Messages
- 28
Hi there,
Background:
I was loosing lot of data as I was copying data to external disks and not maintaining them properly. So initially I bought a Seagate NAS and it was burnt out in a week due to the heat it is generating. After few interactions with them I realized that was a mistake. Finally my search has showed that FreeNAS is the best option and I have decided to built one. Bought a Dell Workstation, ECC Ram, SSD HDDs for OS and Jails, one 3TB HDD for the storage, SAS/SATA PCIe card. At this point, I couldn't afford to buy more HDDs.
Current State:
After some research finally I could able to setup the NAS with Plex Media Server and it is working fine. I am planning to add 5 more disks in future one after the other in the coming 3 - 4 months.
Problem Statement:
This month I am planning to buy one HDD and create a mirror for the existing disk. How should I do it? When I have all the 6 disks, then how can I create a RaidZ2 with all these disks and the most important thing is that I do not want to redo the whole stuff from scratch. I should be able to add the disks to the current setup.
Please help me either by giving the instructions or pointing me to the right article on how to do it. In case any point is not clear, I will give more details so the situation is very clear.
Background:
I was loosing lot of data as I was copying data to external disks and not maintaining them properly. So initially I bought a Seagate NAS and it was burnt out in a week due to the heat it is generating. After few interactions with them I realized that was a mistake. Finally my search has showed that FreeNAS is the best option and I have decided to built one. Bought a Dell Workstation, ECC Ram, SSD HDDs for OS and Jails, one 3TB HDD for the storage, SAS/SATA PCIe card. At this point, I couldn't afford to buy more HDDs.
Current State:
After some research finally I could able to setup the NAS with Plex Media Server and it is working fine. I am planning to add 5 more disks in future one after the other in the coming 3 - 4 months.
Problem Statement:
This month I am planning to buy one HDD and create a mirror for the existing disk. How should I do it? When I have all the 6 disks, then how can I create a RaidZ2 with all these disks and the most important thing is that I do not want to redo the whole stuff from scratch. I should be able to add the disks to the current setup.
Please help me either by giving the instructions or pointing me to the right article on how to do it. In case any point is not clear, I will give more details so the situation is very clear.