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The EASIEST way to Expand Your ZFS Pool in TrueNAS (But is it the Best?)

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The EASIEST way to Expand Your ZFS Pool in TrueNAS (But is it the Best?)

The EASIEST way to Expand Your ZFS Pool in TrueNAS (But is it the Best?)

Posted Jan 14, 2023 Updated Jan 14, 2023
By Techno Tim
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The EASIEST way to Expand Your ZFS Pool in TrueNAS (But is it the Best?)

Description

ZFS is a great file system that comes with TrueNAS and can meet all of your storage needs. But with it comes some complexity on how to manage and expand your ZFS storage pools. Over the last week I learned all about storage pools and how to move them, expand them, and even what not to do when trying to grow your storage pool. Join me as I figure out how to move a 20 TB pool to my new storage server with 100 TB of raw data.

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Seagate Exos 14TB Drives https://amzn.to/3kaQnkN

Seagate IronWolf 8TB Drives https://amzn.to/3iGq3yH

See all of the storage I recommend in this kit!

https://kit.co/TechnoTim/best-ssd-hard-drive-flash-storage

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Chapters

00:00 - What are my options for expanding ZFS?

00:25 - Use ZFS Snapshot Replication (My First Attempt)

02:20 - Just Copy the Data to the New Pool (My Second Attempt)

03:01 - Expand the Pool by Replacing All Disks (My Third Attempt)

04:27 - Replacing All of the Drives & Resilvering

07:16 - Pool has Expanded!

07:43 - My Beef with ZFS and Recommendations

09:20 - Stream Highlight - This is how I got into this mess with ZFS…

A clip used in this video was from Tom Lawrence’s channel. Thanks Tom!

Links

⚙️ See all the hardware I recommend at https://l.technotim.live/gear

🚀 Don’t forget to check out the 🚀Launchpad repo with all of the quick start source files

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