Hi,
I currently run a 2TB single disk pool and want to replace it with a two 8TB mirror.
I want to replace the 2TB single hdd pool 'pool1' by attaching a 8TB drive, to create a mirror 'pool1', and then replacing the small 2TB with a 2nd 8TB drive, and resilvering.
Would this scenario work?
Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to do it in the webgui. I even cannot create a single disk pool from the recognized 8TB WD EDAZ hdd. Is that as expected?
I found this thread similar https://www.truenas.com/community/t...-larger-disks-mirrored-how.82328/#post-569827
Maybe the single disk pool 'pool1' is a stripe pool, and therefor I'm no able to add a mirror disk to expand it into a mirror?
But why I'm not able to create an 8TB single drive pool at all in the webgui?
I'm using FreeNAS 11.3-U5 on a HP microserver N40L. I attached 5 Disks (one on the ATAPI/SATA connector for an optical drive or tape drive) and got a mirrored UltraFit pendrive rpool.
Would upgrading to TrueNAS 12 help with the pool management in the webgui? I read a lot of hassle regarding upgrading the FreeNAS to TrueNAS e.g. with smb and root access etc.
I currently run a 2TB single disk pool and want to replace it with a two 8TB mirror.
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NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM pool1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/b7b60347-2077-11e2-942a-009c02975d54 ONLINE 0 0 0
I want to replace the 2TB single hdd pool 'pool1' by attaching a 8TB drive, to create a mirror 'pool1', and then replacing the small 2TB with a 2nd 8TB drive, and resilvering.
Would this scenario work?
Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to do it in the webgui. I even cannot create a single disk pool from the recognized 8TB WD EDAZ hdd. Is that as expected?
I found this thread similar https://www.truenas.com/community/t...-larger-disks-mirrored-how.82328/#post-569827
https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.3-U5/storage.html#extending-a-poolto extend a ZFS mirror, add the same number of drives. The result is a striped mirror. For example, if ten new drives are available, a mirror of two drives could be created initially, then extended by adding another mirror of two drives, and repeating three more times until all ten drives have been added.
Maybe the single disk pool 'pool1' is a stripe pool, and therefor I'm no able to add a mirror disk to expand it into a mirror?
But why I'm not able to create an 8TB single drive pool at all in the webgui?
I'm using FreeNAS 11.3-U5 on a HP microserver N40L. I attached 5 Disks (one on the ATAPI/SATA connector for an optical drive or tape drive) and got a mirrored UltraFit pendrive rpool.
Would upgrading to TrueNAS 12 help with the pool management in the webgui? I read a lot of hassle regarding upgrading the FreeNAS to TrueNAS e.g. with smb and root access etc.
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