I recently built a FreeNAS setup. As recently as having it finished yesterday.
Of the 8 drives I have, all of them were purchased as "3TB" drives. One of the drives is 2.9TB, while the others are 2.7TB. The smaller ones were what I expected and this is the first time I've gotten more than I paid for and had a problem with it. I can't merge them all into a single raidz2 using the basic interface, and haven't been able to figure out how to use the manual controls.
I've read numerous things about the issues of using differently sized drives, and I didn't plan to do it. On the other hand, I don't mind giving up 200GB of space on a single drive to configure the merged volume.
While I've found tons of warnings, and tried to avoid being in this situation, I haven't found clear directions for how to do it now that I am in need of a solution.
Please help me with some guidance or direction. I keep ending up creating a 7 drive array with a one off drive as an additional stripe volume.
Of the 8 drives I have, all of them were purchased as "3TB" drives. One of the drives is 2.9TB, while the others are 2.7TB. The smaller ones were what I expected and this is the first time I've gotten more than I paid for and had a problem with it. I can't merge them all into a single raidz2 using the basic interface, and haven't been able to figure out how to use the manual controls.
I've read numerous things about the issues of using differently sized drives, and I didn't plan to do it. On the other hand, I don't mind giving up 200GB of space on a single drive to configure the merged volume.
While I've found tons of warnings, and tried to avoid being in this situation, I haven't found clear directions for how to do it now that I am in need of a solution.
Please help me with some guidance or direction. I keep ending up creating a 7 drive array with a one off drive as an additional stripe volume.