Hi All,
Noob here! built this NAS on centoOS in 2012, with 4x2T drives (WD caviar green, 64MB cache). recently migrated to FreeNAS-11.2-U6. two of those drives have errors (offline or unreadable sectors). I bought two replacements: seagate barracuda 7200rpm, 256MB cache. Of my ~3.5T capacity, i'm using 2.44T. I don't need more space anytime soon, but want to architect for expansion. Would love input on two options I see and confirmation that I understand VDEV expansion properly...
replacing HDDs and expanding pool
Noob here! built this NAS on centoOS in 2012, with 4x2T drives (WD caviar green, 64MB cache). recently migrated to FreeNAS-11.2-U6. two of those drives have errors (offline or unreadable sectors). I bought two replacements: seagate barracuda 7200rpm, 256MB cache. Of my ~3.5T capacity, i'm using 2.44T. I don't need more space anytime soon, but want to architect for expansion. Would love input on two options I see and confirmation that I understand VDEV expansion properly...
replacing HDDs and expanding pool