How to add a Hard Drive in Freenas

How to add a drive. No RAID or anything special.

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Howto & Style

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• Freenas
• linux
• hard
• drive
• howto
• add
• server
• nas
• network
• storage

[homebrewelectronics]

I'm new to Free Nas, this version looks better and looks easier than 8...what version is this?

[borglanparty]

@homebrewelectronics 0.69, A bit older.....

[squeezycheeseypeas]

This may sound like a ridiculous question but I go off the idea that the stupid question is the one you don't ask. I noticed that it gave the option for a preformatted drive, if you were to add a drive with data already on it and kept the formatting the same could you just add the drive to the nas without formatting it? and not lose the data on it?

[borglanparty]

@squeezycheeseypeas Yup, That's what that is for. The only caveat is FreeNas really only like UFS (the file system of Free BSD) so I would only use this to recover data, so you could put it on a UFS formatted drive.

Thanks for Watching!

[signalsoldier]

awesome tutorial...i had not mucked with my server for a while and needed to attach an external to back up some important data....your tutorial help loosen the rust in my head. Thanks bro!

[borglanparty]

@signalsoldier Thanks for watching, glad it helped!

[hicux]

u said u don't care if it is formatted or not. If you have lots of data on your hard drive then you must use this UNFORMATTED option otherwise u remove and lose all your data. Becarefull

[squeezycheeseypeas]

@borglanparty Thanks for the quick answer, I have a 2tb drive in ext3 which is full of media which I don't want to lose. What I think I'll do is add that drive to the freenas and then when I buy a new drive I'll back up the old one and reformat so it performs better and I haven't lost anything. Thanks again

[foxofinfinety]

about that UFS is native for FreeNAS.

UFS (Unix FIle System) is also native for FreeBSD, on which FreeNAS is based.