Adding drives in Freenas

[bugeyewrx]

I've set up a server for streaming media to my HTPC and for general storage for my windows PC . It's an old Dell running Freenas and has a 500gb drive already installed .

I've got a 2tb drive to add and was just going to add it with the same volume name as the existing 500gb disk to create a single 2.5tb volume to keep thing simple when accessing the server from the pc's .

Not have had anything to do with servers before I wanted to know if this is the right approach or should I be keeping the drives as individual volumes ?

The other thought I had about this was about backup ...I plan to get an external 2tb usb drive and back up to that , adding extra internal and external usb drives as needed . Is the overlap in drive capacities just asking for problems ?

 

[bugeyewrx]

Thanks for the reply Skidilliplop .... sort of came to the same conclusions , more based on the whole keep it simple sort of idea .

I'm a bit unsure about backing up using RAID incase something major takes out both drives .

I realised I can set up another server at work and back up my server at home to the off site one .... no idea of where to start on that though .