Suggestion for harddrive combination

[chbla]

Can you elaborate? :) Why is it preferrable?

 

[gpsguy]

I've been buying Crucial RAM for many and have never had a problem. A lot of Forum users, whether in the US or Internationally, use Crucial too.

Kingston has done some dodgy things in the past.

Can you elaborate? :) Why is it preferrable?

 

[Stux]

Agree with @gpsguy

Crucial is Micron. They make the stuff.

 

[chbla]

I've ordered the Crucial now, will be here on Monday.

If I create a mirror of 2x2TB, is it possible to add a full disk, then add a second empty one? Otherwise I need to make plans how to move all this data

 

[Stux]

Yes, make your mirror. Extend it with a stripe.

Later you add the new disk to the stripe with the command line, converting it to a mirror

Note: a stripe has no redundancy, and if that disk fails you lose your pool.

 

[chbla]

Is Freenas 10 beta stable enough to use? :) it loos very nice

 

[Amu W Ramappa]

Stick with 9.10, also have a backup drive. ZFS RAIDz is not a reason to not have backups of ur datasets.

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[chbla]

I've setup the system now, with a new 4TB HD (striped) and copied all data over.

I now want to add a second 4TB drive as a mirror - without losing data. I didn't find anything related in the docs that mention this explicitly
but I found: http://techblog.danielpellarini.com/sysadmin/how-to-convert-a-stripe-into-a-mirror-in-freenas/

Are these the correct steps to do what I have in mind? Or is it also possible through the interface?

Thanks a lot

 

[Stux]

Looks like the right steps to me.

The tricky part is formatting the disk

 

[chbla]

why tricky part?

 

[chbla]

on the first cmd I get:

$ gpart create -s gpt /dev/ada1
gpart: geom 'ada1': File exists

edit: got it, had to delete partitions and destroy first