I have been reading alot about Freenas 8 and ZFS over the last week. I am building a box for a friend for him to store 3D video renders to. Right now they want to build the box and start with 3 drives. So I was going to get 3 2TB 7200RPM drives and put them in a raidZ configuration with a volume and then whatever shares they want. Down the road when we add lets say another set of 3 drives I would put those into another raidZ configuration correct? And add that to the pool. From there I am not sure how this works, do I then have the shares go from the ~4TB to ~8TB or will I have to do a separate set of shares? If they do act as 1 volume what does that do for redundancy, could I have 1 drive fail on each set and not lose anything or?
I tried to search around for details on this but figured I would ask to get a more direct answer. If there is a thread about this that I missed you can point me that way. Or if someone has a better recommendation on the setup let me know. Thank you.
I tried to search around for details on this but figured I would ask to get a more direct answer. If there is a thread about this that I missed you can point me that way. Or if someone has a better recommendation on the setup let me know. Thank you.