convert 2 drive mirror to extend storage size

[Chris.karst]

I'm trying to correct a mistakei made whilesetting up one of my machines...

TrueNAS-T:
Intel DH61WW
Pentium G620
8GB RAM
SSD boot drive
2 x 500GB HDD as a 1TB Data pool (oops, it is a mirror, only 500GB)

I intended to have the two data drives act as a larger drive, not be mirrors.
(I'm not worried about duplicating data, I have copies across multiple NAS systems)

I've tried offline then detach of the second drive to make dive 1 a single, then extend to add the second back to it,
but it looks like it is turning it back to a mirror.

Am I missing something?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

zpool detach <pool> <device> to remove the device from the mirror.
zpool add <pool> <device> to add it as a new striped vdev.

Keep in mind that you will lose all data if one disk fails.

 

[Chris.karst]

Keep in mind that you will lose all data if one disk fails.

Yes, it is good to note for for anyone not familiar with data in a 2 disk stripe:
Half of the data ends up being on each of the 2 disks,
BUT if a drive fails, all data is lost, not just the half on the failed drive.

Although, in my case, it would be much harder to lose this data:
(The NAS would need rebuilt, but the shared data would not be lost)

This particular shared folder the NAS is working with is well replicated:
Duplicated on 5 Windows 10 machines,
and 1 Netgear NAS,
and 2 Synology NAS,
and 3 TrueNAS devices.

(my Buffalo NAS, D-Link NAS, and WD NAS are not up to the task)

And then, the Windows machines are backedup on 3 Windows servers.
( Wife says I have too many toys. LOL )