borisattva
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This isn't so much request for upgrade support, as wishing to understand the behind the scenes implications of these two ways of upgrade the system.
TrueNAS-12.0-U7
HP N40L
TOSHIBA DT01ACA200: 1x2TB
Seagate ST2000DM001: 3x2TB
WDC WD40EFZX: 1x4TB
RAIDZ2 6TB
Recently I picked up 4 more of the 40EFZX.
I would now like to replace the current 4x2TBs with the 4x4TB, and increase the pool size afterwards to 12TB.
One of the options is to follow the steps here https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/storage/disks/diskreplace/
and replace the remaining 4 drives 2 at a time per each re-silvering since failure of 2 is supported.
Alternatively, I can resilver them 1 at a time.
Would this me more, or less of the strain in the system than 2 at a time?
Another way still:
There is only about ~2.5TB of data on this NAS right now.
2 plugins.
I could just move the media data over to 5TB external HD I have.
Completely rebuild the pool from scratch with the new drives.
Copy all the contents from the back up drive.
Since there would be no re-silvering strain on the system, this seems like optimal in terms of hardware longevity, and possibly time spent since there would be only 2 instances of copying the data. At least if comparing to the 1 drive at a time 4 instances of re-silvering.
What do you recommend, and why?
Thank you.
TrueNAS-12.0-U7
HP N40L
TOSHIBA DT01ACA200: 1x2TB
Seagate ST2000DM001: 3x2TB
WDC WD40EFZX: 1x4TB
RAIDZ2 6TB
Recently I picked up 4 more of the 40EFZX.
I would now like to replace the current 4x2TBs with the 4x4TB, and increase the pool size afterwards to 12TB.
One of the options is to follow the steps here https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/storage/disks/diskreplace/
and replace the remaining 4 drives 2 at a time per each re-silvering since failure of 2 is supported.
Alternatively, I can resilver them 1 at a time.
Would this me more, or less of the strain in the system than 2 at a time?
Another way still:
There is only about ~2.5TB of data on this NAS right now.
2 plugins.
I could just move the media data over to 5TB external HD I have.
Completely rebuild the pool from scratch with the new drives.
Copy all the contents from the back up drive.
Since there would be no re-silvering strain on the system, this seems like optimal in terms of hardware longevity, and possibly time spent since there would be only 2 instances of copying the data. At least if comparing to the 1 drive at a time 4 instances of re-silvering.
What do you recommend, and why?
Thank you.
