Upgrading Capacity/Migrating Pools

[Leharris97]

Hey all,

Im looking at upgrading my pool to a higher capacity storage. Currently have 5x 2TB drives and have picked up 3x 6TB drives. I saw that I could swap out the 2TB drives one by one and then once they have all been swapped the pool would upgrade itself to the higher capacity but I was only planning on putting the 3x drives in at the moment. 

Would the best way to go about it to be create a 2nd pool, copy everything over and rename the pool once the original pool has been removed?

Thanks

[PsychoWards]

Hey, this depends on a couple of things. Do you have any apps installed? If yes, I'm not sure how this is going to look like after the migration to another pool.

Also, do you have enough slots to connect all the drives at the same time? 

If yes, creating a new pool will be the only way to get more storage with your current number of drives. Once the new pool is create, you need to login into Truenas and use the task replication to copy everything over to your new pool. This is the best and safest way to copy things over to the new pool.