Expanded Storage Pools on Initial Setup

[Royalswan]

I have 24 x 20TB HHD's, when trying to create a pool i'm told I must start with 8 drives then expand later.

It's rather slow both waiting for the interface and also going through 1 drive at a time expanding my storage.

 

Please add feature to ignore 8 drive warning OR allow for multiple drive expanding

[Mobius]

i think the solution for your problem is currently in truenas.
instead of making a large pool with 24 drives you probably want to make multiple vdevs instead
it would be kinda like this picture here

where the blue drives are parity and the grey drives are storage.
so if any drive fails in a group of 5 you only need to resilver the smaller group of 5 instead of a gigantic group of 20.
but to my undrstanding they show up as one big storage pool.

That said i would assume hexos would not play nice with vdevs just yet kinda like how they don't play nice with pools of different size drives or single drive pools made in truenas.

however it does not hurt to try

[Royalswan]

I had bought HexOS so I wouldn't need to fiddle with Truenas anymore. I'll give it a go but would still prefer this be built directly into the software.

Appreciate your reply. I've got another server with 15 x 18TB drives I need to setup too so might have to put HexOS on hold so i don't have to rebuild pools

[Royalswan]

To confirm. This does not work unfortunately. Setup correctly within Truenas however HexOS is showing incorrect data.