CDuv
Dabbler
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2014
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- 17
Hello,
I'm in the process of building a NAS with 6 4TB disks and after all I've read on RAID5 reliability when rebuilding, I'm going for ZFS and RAID-Z2 (offering ~14TB of storage).
It will be used in a professional environment as "Windows shares" provider and workstations backup location. Everything will be replicated on an offsite server.
I'm a bit concerned with how I could eventually gain more space in the future. Server case can house 8 disks, so I'm thinking I might buy 2 other 4TB (or 6TB, who knows...) in a few year if ZFS volume gets filled.
But could the existing, data-containing RAID-Z2 volume be "extended" with theses 2 new disks (as if I had created the RAID-Z2 volume on 8 disks from the begining)?
I'm in the process of building a NAS with 6 4TB disks and after all I've read on RAID5 reliability when rebuilding, I'm going for ZFS and RAID-Z2 (offering ~14TB of storage).
It will be used in a professional environment as "Windows shares" provider and workstations backup location. Everything will be replicated on an offsite server.
I'm a bit concerned with how I could eventually gain more space in the future. Server case can house 8 disks, so I'm thinking I might buy 2 other 4TB (or 6TB, who knows...) in a few year if ZFS volume gets filled.
But could the existing, data-containing RAID-Z2 volume be "extended" with theses 2 new disks (as if I had created the RAID-Z2 volume on 8 disks from the begining)?