Hi,
I am currently running a FreeNAS server with a single storage pool. I am not completely new to FreeNAS, but unexperienced enough to have the following questions.
The pool consists of 4 identical 4000GB Seagate IronWolf ST4000VN008 drives which run perfectly fine for the time being. Now, I am looking into putting this server in a smaller footprint case. This thought led me to questioning the procedure of changing, adding and removing drives from this pool. Specifically:
a) if one drive fails, do I have to put in the same identical drive to replace the broken one?
b) when adding a single bigger sized drive to the pool as a replacement, I am sure it won't increase the overall available storage. But what happens if I replace all smaller drives successively by bigger ones? Will the overall storage size increase once the last smaller drive is replaced?
c) if at any point I would like to increase the pool's available storage space, how do I have to proceed? What is a best practice?
Best,
Michael
I am currently running a FreeNAS server with a single storage pool. I am not completely new to FreeNAS, but unexperienced enough to have the following questions.
The pool consists of 4 identical 4000GB Seagate IronWolf ST4000VN008 drives which run perfectly fine for the time being. Now, I am looking into putting this server in a smaller footprint case. This thought led me to questioning the procedure of changing, adding and removing drives from this pool. Specifically:
a) if one drive fails, do I have to put in the same identical drive to replace the broken one?
b) when adding a single bigger sized drive to the pool as a replacement, I am sure it won't increase the overall available storage. But what happens if I replace all smaller drives successively by bigger ones? Will the overall storage size increase once the last smaller drive is replaced?
c) if at any point I would like to increase the pool's available storage space, how do I have to proceed? What is a best practice?
Best,
Michael