How to swap a disk in FreeNAS and grow your pool.

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[KirkDickinson]

Not the safest way to do your swap. Much better to "Replace" the drives one at a time with the old drive still in there. That will maintain your Z1 redundancy. The way you are doing it, if the one of the other drives dies, your whole pool is lost. Once the new drive is reslivered, it will take the old one offline and you can take it out and do the next one.

[it-linux-computers-geeky]

Just reached the point my server has ran out of bays and this will be my first time replacing a pool and thank you for the guide was a huge help, now it's just a waiting game for the first hard drive to finish resilvering and then replace the second one, the joys of having terabytes of data HA!

[yaschan]

Very very nice explanation of the process. I love this. Need more tutorials like this.

[JoMiller]

Have you seen where you go to replace it and it just has a "-" instead of the drive to replace? Does it need to do some processing in the back end or is there more to it that I'm missing?

[AlexKW]

What is the server rack you are using?

[prophetof]

What did you do after Silvering Finnnish ? Get manualy on-line the new drive or not ?

[malisa]

If you would have RAIDz2, could you take 2 drivers offline and replace them at the same time?

[marcg]

thanks for the video. Maybe worth amending title to say your method is "without redundancy (dangerous)"

[unknown_channel_name]

I am using a Single HDD in my Freenas Box at the moment without any redundancy and I bought a bigger drive. So how can I swap to a bigger drive while keeping all my datasets intact ?

[UTCUTR]

FreeNAS is useless. You have better luck adding to your desktop and using windows shares.