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March 15th, 2025 23:26
Dell R730 RAID question
I have a dell r730. Has 8 4tb WD reds with TrueNAS installed. When i installed truenas i only had 4 drives. I added 4 more today. However during boot the server only sees the original 4 under virtual disks. The other 4 are seen but only when you use iDRAC or bios settings. Looking on google it looks like its because they are not part of the RAID. How do I add these 4 drives to the existing raid so I can have them seen in truenas so I can extended the storage? i do not want to loose any data.
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DELL-Young E
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March 16th, 2025 22:46
Hello, I believe this has to be done on the OS, TrueNAS. This video may help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPCrDmjWV_I
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Origin3k
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March 16th, 2025 00:41
You need to perform a Online Capacity Expansion (OCE). So take a look into the H730 manual.
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March 16th, 2025 12:03
@Origin3k I did do that but I messed it up and added all 4 to the group so now TrueNAS only say it as 14TB. i should of done it one 4TB at a time. Any way to change that?
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March 16th, 2025 12:10
idle0095
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March 23rd, 2025 17:02
@Origin3k without losing any data? I let truenas attach the 14tb not thinking it would only use 4tb out of the 14tb.