supermicro board with existing raid 5

[MutoSan]

Hello all. After a long try out with OMV im back to freenas. hope I can solve some issue i had with OMV.

Now I wonder if I can read in or import in my existing raid 5 (onboard raid controller). I can change it later
as soon as I got 5tb cloud storage, where my movies and music files dont get deleted (I own over 600 dvds and bluerays and allot of music CDs). around 90% have been digitalised by myself.

Is it possible to read/import the raid5 without loosing the data on it? Else I will wait until I have the cloud storage and will format them to ZFS.

Many thanks for a quick answer, as my search brought up many links but none of them answered my questions,.

 

[MrToddsFriends]

Is it possible to read/import the raid5 without loosing the data on it? Else I will wait until I have the cloud storage and will format them to ZFS.

As far as I know this isn't possible. The import function in FreeNAS is meant to be a tool for importing data from a single non-ZFS disk to an existing ZFS pool (which you apparently don't have at this time).

http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_storage.html?highlight=import#import-disk

Please use German language if you continue to post in the German forum or use the English sections of the FreeNAS forum.

 

[MutoSan]

well then I will buy storage of Mega and upload it there first. I really disappointed about OMV as I installed freenas already on a disk and it worked like a charm (with Grub).
That did not work with OMV from stick nor from CD. Thank you for the fast answer.