Hi folks, I'm looking into setting up a home file server for media and backups, and I'm a bit split between FreeNAS with zfs and raid-z vs rolling my own thing with Linux and btrfs/raid-5 and such.
The main issue is that I'm cheap and only want to buy two new drives to supplement the one that I already have. The problem is that it's currently full of data!
I'm pretty sure that btrfs will let me build a smaller array with the new drives, copy the data over, and then expand the array to include the old drive. But zfs won't allow that, at least not as simply, so I'd either have my old drive sitting around unused, or else have to double the size of the array.
Does anyone here have experience with this and/or suggestions?
The main issue is that I'm cheap and only want to buy two new drives to supplement the one that I already have. The problem is that it's currently full of data!
I'm pretty sure that btrfs will let me build a smaller array with the new drives, copy the data over, and then expand the array to include the old drive. But zfs won't allow that, at least not as simply, so I'd either have my old drive sitting around unused, or else have to double the size of the array.
Does anyone here have experience with this and/or suggestions?