Hello, this is my first Freenas build. I made a Z2 of 8x4TB and copied all of my data over the network to it from my windows 10 rig. I took 8x4TB from my windows rig and put them in my Freenas. I wanted to double the capacity of my original Z2 pool by adding a vdev which would be identical model and number of drives. I went to the original Z2 pool and choose EXTEND to add the 8 more drives. It seems to have worked because my Z2pool now shows both vdevs of 8 drives. My problem is that my capacity hasnt increased at all. The original vdev capacity was about 21TB and I copied files to it until it was about 87% full. I am confused because the capacity didnt increase at all and I was expecting to have 42TB meanwhile the Z2 pool says its 44% full now.
I would have searched more but I didnt realize how hot all my drives were getting now that they are all crammed into the server case. Ive started to get some critical alerts from a few drives saying they are unreadable, yet the dashboard says the pool is healthy. I have a spare but I havent set it up, yet.
What did I do wrong?
I would also like to know if its possible to make a striped pool of 2x2TB NVME and use it as a hot spare until I can get a real one.
Thanks!
I would have searched more but I didnt realize how hot all my drives were getting now that they are all crammed into the server case. Ive started to get some critical alerts from a few drives saying they are unreadable, yet the dashboard says the pool is healthy. I have a spare but I havent set it up, yet.
What did I do wrong?
I would also like to know if its possible to make a striped pool of 2x2TB NVME and use it as a hot spare until I can get a real one.
Thanks!
