Solution to installing with different hard drives

[rceit]

Hello All!
I asked the question regarding the install failing over and over, receiving some good input. I googled until I could find nothing to help.

here was the problem:
Used 3 hard drives, all seagate 250 gig.

I went to Disks, Management, and imported the 3 HD's the size for two was 252.0 and one was 252.06
Then formatted all for ZFS
Then went to Disk - ZFS- Pools and created the virtual device.
Then Pools - Management- and added a pool

Here where it fails: Once I hit apply, it stalls. Repeated steps 6x stalls at the exact place.

Found a google entry on the log error that stated the drives were mis-matched by .06 gig and I should format each drive individually before I begin installation. did this, and it still fails, Found another 250 gig HD, added it (now 4 HD). These 3 work well, the 252.06 locks the install. removed the 252.06 HD, and all works fine.
I do not understand why, but for now, I will look closely at the size of the HD's. If they do not match exactly, I will not use it.

So, does anyone have any idea how I can use this 252.06 drive in another nas4free machine? Or do I just reinstall windows on it for a desktop?

Thanks for reading this to the bitter end. I will truely appreciate any comments and suggestions

[kenZ71]

Using a 250GB drive for data won't give you much data storage vs power used.

Have a look at File Vdevs here: https://pthree.org/2012/12/04/zfs-admin ... t-i-vdevs/

[raulfg3]

Simply use -f to force creation.

Try to create pool from Shell using -f

[JoseMR]

+1 To use "Force" wen creating the pools with different drives, you can do this from GUI like shown below:

Force_Vdev.PNG

Regards