Increasing Storage RAIDZ2 Volume

[chrysis]

Hi everyone,

Looking for a little assistance in increasing the storage space of my current Z2 volume. My FreeNAS box is 16-bays. I previously had it populated with 8 3TB drives in RAIDZ2 which gave me approximately 15.7TB of usable space. I have since required additional storage and have populated the remaining 8 drive bays with an additional 8 3TB drives. My question, is how can I increase the current volume with the additional 8 3TB drives? Do I create a new volume or extend the existing?

regards,
chrysis

 

[gpsguy]

Most users would extend the current volume with the additional 8x3TB drives. It makes storage management easier.

Read the docs - http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/storage.html#extending-a-zfs-volume

 

[chrysis]

Most users would extend the current volume with the additional 8x3TB drives. It makes storage management easier.

Read the docs - http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/storage.html#extending-a-zfs-volume

Thanks!

 

[Stux]

And in the future either upgrade to a 24 bay case, add a JBOD or replace the disks in one of your vdevs.

I personally wouldn't have gone with 3TB drives again.