Mark Knecht wrote: > <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
I have two drives and it sees them as one larger drive. No RAID or anything. At least not that I know of anyway. To be honest, I know very little about RAID. Read threads on it but never used it. Basically, I took two drives, I think they are 8 and a 10TB but may be something else, and it sees them as one 18TB or something like that. I'm wanting to add a 6TB or something to that until I can get larger drives, maybe a better plan too. I was wanting to build a storage solution with a Raspberry Pi thing but those are like looking for hair on a frog. O_O Alan, I clicked that link the other day, I didn't see anything there. Maybe it's there but I don't know I'm looking at it. I get confused between what LVM terms and TrueNAS terms are what. Dale :-) :-) P. S. I wish I could install LVM on that thing but it just isn't built for that.
