It’s time for another ZFS pool expansion. When I last expanded; I doubled the capacity of my 2nd vdev β going from 16 TB to 32 TB raw capacity. This time I’m doubling again β replacing the last limiting drive, and fully utilizing the all the 8 TB drives π
Scheduled S.M.A.R.T. scans

I’ve been planning to enable scheduled S.M.A.R.T. scans ever since I built my file server, but it was just one of those things that I never got around to do.
Well β when one of the 8 TB drives suddenly started reporting S.M.A.R.T. errors, the scheduled scans got back on the agenda. So let’s do that now π
My anticlimactic ZFS SSD pool story

This post was suppose to be a “look I made an SSD ZFS pool”, but will instead be the first post in a trouble-shooting series. Trying to get my SSDs to behave.
But β I am getting ahead of myselfβ¦ Let’s start at the beginning.
Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool

I’m replacing a disk and and expanding my ZFS 2ΓRAID-Z2 pool π
File server storage migration and expansion
