Replacing drives

[afmiller]

So my current is 5x 2tb drives. FreeNAS is starting to spit out errors on the one drive. Is there any issues / concerns if I replace it with a 3tb drive? I can get - 3tb drive for the same cost if would be for a 2tb. I was thinking I could do this as drives start going then eventually once all 5 drives are 3tb if possible expand it

Thanks

 

[nightshade00013]

Yep, can replace them with larger drives. Once they are all replaced and resilvered you can expand the pool as per the documentation. Or just create a second pool and transfer the data over so that you lose the fragmentation.

 

[Chris Moore]

So my current is 5x 2tb drives. Freenas is starting to spit out errors on the one drive. Is there any issues / concerns if I replace it with a 3tb drive? I can get - 3tb drive for the same cost if would be for a 2tb. I was thinking I could do this as drives start going then eventually once all 5 drives are 3tb if possible expand it

Thanks

I would suggest going to 4TB drives, the 3TB drives are not really a good value, in my opinion...
Have a look at this resource and decide for yourself:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...e-performance-analysis-buying-information.62/

Once you replace all the drives (one at a time) with larger drives the pool should automatically expand. I have done it a couple times, first when I went from 1TB drives to 2TB drives several years ago and again more recently when I replaced all the drives in one vdev with 4TB drives.

 

[afmiller]

I would go for 4TB drives normally. But I can snag 3TBs for $49 with a 3yr warranty. The 4TB is over double the cost. So getting the deal while it lasts

Thank you Chris and nightshade for answering my question

 

[Chris Moore]

Well, if you have a special price, it is hard to find a deal better than that, be sure to get a spare drive though. I keep two spare drives of each size that I use.

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[wblock]

But I can snag 3TBs for $49 with a 3yr warranty.

Are these "white label" drives? Such drives are "refurbished" by a reseller, but users here have had bad experiences with them.

 

[danb35]

users here have had bad experiences with them.

My ears were burning, and now I know why. Yeah, not a good experience--out of six "white label" 6 TB disks I bought about a year and a half ago, five have failed.