greeners
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My hardware has been happily running for 3 weeks now and I am ready to create my Raid Z2 with 6 drives that been put through some testing.
My Freenas is purposed for home file/media server. It will be replacing a Win7 box that contains 3 x 3 TB drives with no redundancy ... about 6.3 GB of data.
The 6 drives for the Freenas are the following sizes:
1 x 4 TB
2 x 3 TB
3 x 2 TB
I believe that I understand that these configured with Raid Z2 would give me around 7.5 TB usable space.
Assuming everything is happy on the Freenas box I would copy the data from the Win7 box over. I would then put the 3 x 3 TB drives from the Win7 box though some testing and if they all test fine, use them to replace the 2 TB drives in the Freenas box (per hard drive replacement instructions I read about a few weeks ago).
From what I have read this should automagically expand me to around 11 TB.
Does this sound like a reasonable way to proceed?
Thanks in advance!
My Freenas is purposed for home file/media server. It will be replacing a Win7 box that contains 3 x 3 TB drives with no redundancy ... about 6.3 GB of data.
The 6 drives for the Freenas are the following sizes:
1 x 4 TB
2 x 3 TB
3 x 2 TB
I believe that I understand that these configured with Raid Z2 would give me around 7.5 TB usable space.
Assuming everything is happy on the Freenas box I would copy the data from the Win7 box over. I would then put the 3 x 3 TB drives from the Win7 box though some testing and if they all test fine, use them to replace the 2 TB drives in the Freenas box (per hard drive replacement instructions I read about a few weeks ago).
From what I have read this should automagically expand me to around 11 TB.
Does this sound like a reasonable way to proceed?
Thanks in advance!
