fungus1487
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- Jan 12, 2012
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Hi All,
I have had a FreeNAS setup for 12-18 months now which has been great. I have a 5 disc RAIDZ volume which is now approaching 98% usage. I have another 5 drives to expand with, effectively doubling the amount of space I have, all my hardware is fine for this setup as I planned well ahead.
My question is what are the cons of expanding my current 5 disc RAIDZ into 2 x 5 disc RAIDZ configuration.
Currently this will transparently double my storage without having to setup other boxes to include another network folder. Is the risk of data corruption across the two RAIDZ configurations more likely to fail as a result of this? Should I set these 5 discs up as a seperate volume and not extend the first or are the risks negligible? Thanks for any help.
I have had a FreeNAS setup for 12-18 months now which has been great. I have a 5 disc RAIDZ volume which is now approaching 98% usage. I have another 5 drives to expand with, effectively doubling the amount of space I have, all my hardware is fine for this setup as I planned well ahead.
My question is what are the cons of expanding my current 5 disc RAIDZ into 2 x 5 disc RAIDZ configuration.
Currently this will transparently double my storage without having to setup other boxes to include another network folder. Is the risk of data corruption across the two RAIDZ configurations more likely to fail as a result of this? Should I set these 5 discs up as a seperate volume and not extend the first or are the risks negligible? Thanks for any help.