I finally ran out of disk space on my PLEX server.

[therobmyers]

I have 3, 4 TB Western Digital RED drives that are now full. Problem is I'm still adding movies to it. Am I able to just purchase another 4 TB hard drive and link them together? I set it up where it uses the entire hard drives with no backups. Any help is appreciated.

 

[DrKK]

Sir,

Unfortunately that is not how this works. Also, this is the #1 thing that we stress, in literally hundreds of our posts, documentation, and guides. I'm not sure how you could have missed it.

You cannot add devices (drives) to increase space to existing vdevs. However, you *CAN* add another vdev itself. There are options, none inexpensive.

Before I can advise you further, we will need to see the result of

Code:

zpool status

so we can see how you are configured. Also, please least your motherboard, amount of RAM, and CPU.

 

[therobmyers]

Would I be better off transferring off everything to my external hds and re-doing it? lol

 

[genBTC]

Would I be better off transferring off everything to my external hds and re-doing it? lol

no. too soon for that you havent exhausted all options.

You can do plenty of things, still assuming.
or
Just make a new pool out of the new 1 disk, since sounds like you're not using any redundancy(you said backups....) anyway

 

[DrKK]

Please let me see "zpool status" sir. Your situation may be worse than the above gentleman is assuming.

 

[therobmyers]

[root@freenas ~]# zpool status
pool: PMC
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 11h30m with 0 errors on Sun Jul 9 11:30:13 2017
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
PMC ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/6e8ad9f8-c527-11e4-b8dd-6c0b8409fdff ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/6f54ef2d-c527-11e4-b8dd-6c0b8409fdff ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

pool: freenas-boot
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h1m with 0 errors on Tue Jul 25 03:46:21 2017
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
freenas-boot ONLINE 0 0 0
da0p2 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors
[root@freenas ~]#

 

[therobmyers]

So what is my best course of action Doctor? Am I fucked or what? lol

 

[DrKK]

Sir, this is very odd.

Your pool appears to contain two drives. Not 3 as you stated.

 

[DrKK]

Sir, let me see

Code:

camcontrol devlist

if you please.

 

[therobmyers]

[root@freenas ~]# camcontrol devlist
<WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 82.00A82> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ada0)
<HL-DT-ST DVDROM DH60N 1.01> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd0)
<WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 82.00A82> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,ada1)
<SanDisk Ultra Fit 1.00> at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (pass3,da0)
[root@freenas ~]#

 

[Jailer]

Output of zpool list might help as well.

 

[DrKK]

Sir,

You are showing only two drives connected. ada0, and ada1.

And what's worse, is they are each apparently their own single-disk vdev.

This is very very very bad.

 

[therobmyers]

It was a couple years ago I built this server...I could be mistaken but I thought it said 12 TB under my volumes here is pic

http://imgur.com/a0t93N9

 

[DrKK]

I'd like to know where your third drive is.

As it is right now, if any of these drives takes a crap, your ENTIRE POOL is hosed, without recovery possible.

 

[Jailer]

That pic shows us absolutely nothing. Are you SURE you have 3 drives?

ETA: It sure looks like 2 4TB drives striped together.

 

[therobmyers]

LOL...you got me nervous now DrKK. I may only have 2 hard drives then...I can't remember I was just going off the pic I linked showing 11. 9 TB used...and the fact I have like 3700 movies on them now. Sheesh, I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight lol

 

[therobmyers]

Ok, I just checked my purchase history from BB, It's confirmed, I only have 2, 4TB WD RED drives.

 

[Cpuroast]

LOL...you got me nervous now DrKK. I may only have 2 hard drives then...I can't remember I was just going off the pic I linked showing 11. 9 TB used...and the fact I have like 3700 movies on them now. Sheesh, I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight lol

Nowhere in that pic does it say 11.9 TiB used.
Look at the very top of it at the root dataset level, it clearly says 6.9TiB used.

 

[DrKK]

All I can tell you sir, is what I know.

I know you have two drives connected as far as FreeNAS is concerned,
I know they are connected as single-drive striped vdevs, which is the very very worst possible scenario.

I know you need to fix it. How strapped are you for cash? I can give you "fair" and "very good" solutions here, but the price difference between the two is substantial.

 

[therobmyers]

I mean, I'm not hurting for money...My plan was to buy another 8TB External HD and just xfer all my movies from the server onto my externals. Then I was gonna buy 3 more WD 4TB Red drives and then re-do them all together. But seeing how I only have 2, I would just buy 2 more WD Red drives and re-do the free NAS