Hard Drive Capacity Upgrade

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chaoticdopey

Cadet

Nov 9, 2023

#1

Hello,
I currently have 2 8tb harddrives in mirror and was wondering what I would have to do if I install 2 more 8tb drives to make it have a total of 16tb of storage?

Specs
Intel Xeon 2680 v4 14 core 28 thread
128gb ddr4 ecc memory
2 8tb drives in mirror
1 3tb separate pool
240gb ssd boot drive

NugentS

MVP

Nov 9, 2023

#2

Just install a new vdev into the pool

Supermicro X10DRH-CLN4, 256GB ECC Memory, 2 * E5-2667 V3 in 24 Bay Rack Mount 4U Case
Chelsio T520 CR Dual SFP+ NIC using fibre to the switch
LSI 9305-16i IT Mode SAS HBA
SAS3008 on board in IT Mode
TrueNAS-SCALE (Bluefin)
Boot from mirrored 100GB Intel DC3710
BigPool: 8 * Seagate Exos 12TB HDD in 4 * mirrored pairs + 2 18TB Toshiba MG08 + Optane 900P as SLOG + Mirrored Special (800GB Intel DC S3610)
SSDPool: 6 * DC S3610 1.6TB SSD in 3 * mirrored pairs + Optane 900P as SLOG
AppPool 2 * 512GB Intel DC S3610 as mirrored pair
ScratchSSD 1 * High Endurance SSD for temp files for some applications. No write amplification and I don't care about the data
Use Case: VM Storage, Media Storage and General File Storage
Power: Not measured yet

Truenas-Scale (Bluefin)
Supermicro A2SDi-H-TF, 64GB ECC RAM in Fractal Design R5
Intel DC3700 100Gb as boot disk
Apps: 2 * Samsung SM863 960GB in Mirror
Tank: 7 * Tosh MG09 18TB in Z2 + Intel M10 64GB Optane as L2ARC (Metadata only)
UseCase: Backup via Replication of PrimaryNAS
Power: 100W

Synology 1517+ running DSM
5 * 18TB HDD Toshiba MS09 RAID 6
Why - Cos Synology's Backup for Business can backup PC, Servers, SMB Shares, O365 and VM's. And its free (with the overpriced Synology)
Usecase: Second backup target (File by File) & Docker
Power: 69W

1. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-126075 - Have a toggle for the K3S Service, like FTP, iSCSI, NFS etc
2. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-125176 - Snapshot as part of OS upgrade
3. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-122581 - Consistent disk labels (sda, sdb etc) for use by the API or reporting
4. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-121499 - Backup (& Restore) of Container Configuration
5. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-119779 - Update version of rclone to 1.6 (or better)
6. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-117030 - Replace the word cache in vdev creation and use L2ARC instead
7. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-125962 - Change Extend to Attach a Mirror

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chaoticdopey

Cadet

Nov 9, 2023

#3

NugentS said:
Just install a new vdev into the pool

so doing that would bring me up to 16tb mirrored?

NugentS

MVP

Nov 9, 2023

#4

yes

Supermicro X10DRH-CLN4, 256GB ECC Memory, 2 * E5-2667 V3 in 24 Bay Rack Mount 4U Case
Chelsio T520 CR Dual SFP+ NIC using fibre to the switch
LSI 9305-16i IT Mode SAS HBA
SAS3008 on board in IT Mode
TrueNAS-SCALE (Bluefin)
Boot from mirrored 100GB Intel DC3710
BigPool: 8 * Seagate Exos 12TB HDD in 4 * mirrored pairs + 2 18TB Toshiba MG08 + Optane 900P as SLOG + Mirrored Special (800GB Intel DC S3610)
SSDPool: 6 * DC S3610 1.6TB SSD in 3 * mirrored pairs + Optane 900P as SLOG
AppPool 2 * 512GB Intel DC S3610 as mirrored pair
ScratchSSD 1 * High Endurance SSD for temp files for some applications. No write amplification and I don't care about the data
Use Case: VM Storage, Media Storage and General File Storage
Power: Not measured yet

Truenas-Scale (Bluefin)
Supermicro A2SDi-H-TF, 64GB ECC RAM in Fractal Design R5
Intel DC3700 100Gb as boot disk
Apps: 2 * Samsung SM863 960GB in Mirror
Tank: 7 * Tosh MG09 18TB in Z2 + Intel M10 64GB Optane as L2ARC (Metadata only)
UseCase: Backup via Replication of PrimaryNAS
Power: 100W

Synology 1517+ running DSM
5 * 18TB HDD Toshiba MS09 RAID 6
Why - Cos Synology's Backup for Business can backup PC, Servers, SMB Shares, O365 and VM's. And its free (with the overpriced Synology)
Usecase: Second backup target (File by File) & Docker
Power: 69W

1. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-126075 - Have a toggle for the K3S Service, like FTP, iSCSI, NFS etc
2. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-125176 - Snapshot as part of OS upgrade
3. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-122581 - Consistent disk labels (sda, sdb etc) for use by the API or reporting
4. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-121499 - Backup (& Restore) of Container Configuration
5. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-119779 - Update version of rclone to 1.6 (or better)
6. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-117030 - Replace the word cache in vdev creation and use L2ARC instead
7. https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-125962 - Change Extend to Attach a Mirror

Important Announcement for the TrueNAS Community.

Hard Drive Capacity Upgrade

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