Hello,
I searched around on this topic and while I did find quite a few topics about replacing hard drives, most of them were for people who already had multiple drives in raid configurations.
A bit of information on my setup:
I'm running freenas on a decently powered old PC. (Intel i7 920, 16gb of ram etc). I figure this is going to be much more efficient than most affordable consumer NAS boxes that can't even stream via Plex due to lack of power.
I have freenas booting from a flash drive connected to that PC, and only a single hard drive for storage.
My dilemma is that I want two things, 1. More storage space, and 2. Raid 1 mirroring.
I want to buy two 4tb NAS ready hard drives (like Western digital red series) and put them in Raid 1. But I would also like to NOT lose all of the data on the old drive.
I saw one post about imaging the old drive to the new drive with a Linux boot CD, (which is easy enough), but it got confusing when they started talking about how freenas didn't recognize the new storage size and still had the old hard drive storage size etc.
At this point in my server, it's not too hard for me to just start over. Maybe install freenas OS on one of the new drives this time instead of on a flash drive, or install freenas on a new flash drive and just remove the old flash drive and hard drive.
In theory, if I ever needed data off of the old drive, I could install that drive, plug in the old flash drive and boot right up, correct?
If I started fresh, with two drives in RAID 1, could I then install the old drive as a 3rd drive and somehow copy the data over to the new drives within freenas all together?
I'm just trying to figure out the easiest and quickest way to get the job done. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
I searched around on this topic and while I did find quite a few topics about replacing hard drives, most of them were for people who already had multiple drives in raid configurations.
A bit of information on my setup:
I'm running freenas on a decently powered old PC. (Intel i7 920, 16gb of ram etc). I figure this is going to be much more efficient than most affordable consumer NAS boxes that can't even stream via Plex due to lack of power.
I have freenas booting from a flash drive connected to that PC, and only a single hard drive for storage.
My dilemma is that I want two things, 1. More storage space, and 2. Raid 1 mirroring.
I want to buy two 4tb NAS ready hard drives (like Western digital red series) and put them in Raid 1. But I would also like to NOT lose all of the data on the old drive.
I saw one post about imaging the old drive to the new drive with a Linux boot CD, (which is easy enough), but it got confusing when they started talking about how freenas didn't recognize the new storage size and still had the old hard drive storage size etc.
At this point in my server, it's not too hard for me to just start over. Maybe install freenas OS on one of the new drives this time instead of on a flash drive, or install freenas on a new flash drive and just remove the old flash drive and hard drive.
In theory, if I ever needed data off of the old drive, I could install that drive, plug in the old flash drive and boot right up, correct?
If I started fresh, with two drives in RAID 1, could I then install the old drive as a 3rd drive and somehow copy the data over to the new drives within freenas all together?
I'm just trying to figure out the easiest and quickest way to get the job done. Any suggestions?
Thanks,