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33 minutes ago, Smit Devrukhkar said:

I have an old desktop running freenas. I have created pool with 1 4tb drive in it. My second drive just arrived I was wondering if I can add the drive to the pool without loosing any data that is already stored on the first drive.

You can add it to a pool then create a new separate Volume but if you want to do RAID then no, you have to format all drives while creating a RAID Volume.

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I have an old desktop running freenas. I have created pool with 1 4tb drive in it. My second drive just arrived I was wondering if I can add the drive to the pool without loosing any data that is already stored on the first drive.

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33 minutes ago, Smit Devrukhkar said:

I have an old desktop running freenas. I have created pool with 1 4tb drive in it. My second drive just arrived I was wondering if I can add the drive to the pool without loosing any data that is already stored on the first drive.

You can add it to a pool then create a new separate Volume but if you want to do RAID then no, you have to format all drives while creating a RAID Volume.

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