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Adding Drives to FreeNAS

Nagi
By Nagi
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Hello, I have a question. I already have 2 4TB drives in mirror, can I add another 4TB for data? And I also have one single 1TB Drive, can I add another one to mirror it without deleting everything?

Thanks for the help!

Server - i7-6700 | 32GB DDR4 RAM | 3x1TB WD Purple | 2x4TB Seagate Ironwolf | 256GB SSD WD Green (Jails/Plex) | 256GB SSD m.2 Samsung (Cache) | FreeNAS 11.3

Workstation/VM - i7-6700 | 32GB DDR4 RAM | Windows 10 Server 2019

Work - Razer Blade Stealth 13 (2019) | i7-8565U | 16 GB RAM | GeForce MX150 | Windows 10 Build 2004

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You can have mismatched drive sizes in a mirror, but its the smaller drives space that is usable

 

You can add a single drive to a zpool, but if it fails, all the data in the pool is lost. You can convert a single drive to a mirror and viceverse.

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