Expanding a 4 disk Vdev with 4 disk

[TheRaiu]

Hi there FreeNAS community!!

Im a new the community and i have quite a predicament.

My NAS is projected for a total of 8 disks, but i have only bought 4 of them as of now.
While reading up on this on various forums i has become apparent to me that expanding a vdev with more disks might be a litte problematic.

So my question is, if it's possible to perhaps create the vdev with something similiar to 4 "ghost" (drives that only exist virtually but dont have any function if this function actually exist) drives so the vdev have all the 8 drives which i had planned for so i can expand it easily in the future.

Or should i hold of on creating the vdev until i have all the drives in my hand?


Another alternative might perhaps be to create two vdev in the pool, each with 4 disks. But wont i be loosing storage capacity using this solution?

Best Regards
TheRaiu

 

[cyberjock]

You can't create 4 ghost drives. You have to build the vdev with the number of disks you have up front. :(

As for if you will lose storage capacity, that depends on your choice of vdevs. You might or you might not.

 

[TheRaiu]

Ty cyberjock for replying.

So my fears were confirmed, so ill just have to wait it out until i get the last 4 drives then i guess.