I have a NAS (freenas) server, bank of 6 drives in a raid-5 array. I have to expand the size of the array. In order to do that, I have to offload the data - then break the array to add drives to it, then copy the data back. Not a big deal of course, just somewhat inconvenient.
I do not know all the options of Freenas, I know they probably made some updates into data handling between the vdev or zvol or how to go about building a stable storage bank.
My question is;
Should I rebuild the raid-5 array to add the drives? Is there another type of array with the same safety as raid-5 with option for me to add drives to expand in the future without having to offload all the existing data?
I do not know all the options of Freenas, I know they probably made some updates into data handling between the vdev or zvol or how to go about building a stable storage bank.
My question is;
Should I rebuild the raid-5 array to add the drives? Is there another type of array with the same safety as raid-5 with option for me to add drives to expand in the future without having to offload all the existing data?