Best way to add new drives?

[warllo]

Hi all,

I currently have a FreeNAS box with two 2TB WD Red Nas drives.

I have a single mirrored pool configured named DataVol1 that I would like to extend by adding two additional 2TB WD Red Nas drives.

How would I go about doing this without having to move my data off to a temporary location?

I would like to achieve something comparable to raid 10 which I think would just be adding another mirrored vdev to the pool but I'm not totally sure.

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

All you would have to do is physically connect the drives, and then add another mirrored vdev to the existing pool.

 

[garm]

its in the manual http://doc.freenas.org/11/storage.html#extending-a-zfs-volume

 

[dup.morne]

Hi,

I have installed FreeNAS 11.2-U5 and created a Pool with 1x 3TB drive (File Share). My disk space is "running low and I would like to add an additional 1x 3TB without loosing my data. Will I use the "Extend" option to add the new disk and increase the storage?

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[hervon]

Dup.morne : no double posting.