<SNIP> > > > Is there a how to, since it is a GUI, pictures would be nice, that shows how to add a drive? If I can add a drive, that'll work. My duckduckgo searches turned up results that says I can't do that. I found dozens of them. I can't find a single one that shows how to do it tho. I'd like to use the GUI if possible. I've read that for TrueNAS, everything should be done with the GUI because of the way it is setup. I dunno. I just want to do it. > > I do plan to replace that drive later tho. I have a spare drive laying around that I can put in for now. Later, I plan to but a 14, 16 or 18TB drive and replace it. I notice the 18TB drive prices are getting reasonable. Sort of. Will I be able to add the larger drive then remove the old temporary one later? If I can't, I may as well switch now. I only have 4 slots, three already used I think. I have little wiggle room in that old rig. > > If this falls though, sounds like Ubuntu is the tool. It has been around a long time and lots of people use it so don't see it going away anytime soon. > > Thanks, to all, for the replies. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Dale, You've gotten good advice from everyone. However there are some issues around how you set up the pool originally as to what you can do now. I am leaping to the conclusion that you put in multiple hard drives and chose 'Mirror' and not 'Stripe'. If you chose to mirror multiple drives then adding another drive to the mirror (read RAID) isn't going to make it larger. If you chose stripe then it will. (TTBOMK) If you are mirrored and have a larger drive you want to add, but don't have either a physical slot to put it in OR don't have another controller port then you can fail/dismiss/remove 1 drive from the mirror, install your larger drive physically and then add it to the mirror and TrueNAS will do the formatting and data copying. However ensure you are NOT using a shingled drive. I ran TrueNAS for a couple of years and it worked fine, but I did have problems with a couple of their updates not applying correctly, or at least leaving me with error messages. I never had an operational problem but the error messages hung around and I got tired of not knowing how to eliminate them. That said I eventually decided that for my simplistic home needs I was better off with Ubuntu Server and NFS. I don't use LVM but it's supported. If you want to manage your server with a graphics front end look into NetData. The free version gives me pretty much everything I liked about the TrueNAS front end and it's HTML based so I can view the server from any of my machines. Best of luck, Mark
