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2015-04-28 5:39 GMT-03:00 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to |
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> be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The |
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> 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before |
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> to long. So, I got to thinking, why not buy another 3TB drive and just |
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> add that which would double my space. I use LVM by the way. I may try |
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> BTFS, (sp?). Either way, adding a drive shouldn't be to much of a |
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> problem. |
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> On one hand, adding a drive would double my space. It would also spread |
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> out my stuff in the event a drive failed. On the other hand, one more |
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> drive to have spinning that could fail too. These large drives makes me |
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> wonder sometimes. |
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> What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a |
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> larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half |
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> dozen of the other thing? |
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> Dale |
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> P. S. |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/mapper/Home2-Home2 2.7T 1.8T 945G 66% /home |
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I've already had my /home partition filled up, and it was just one of the |
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partitions on the only hard drive inside this machine. |
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Nowadays I have 3 more hard drives on this same machine, which makes 4 |
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drives in total. None of them so big, though, the newest one is 1TB. |
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Now, talking about redundancy, if you worry about many - or all - of your |
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files, perhaps you should consider a RAID. Although expensive, it makes |
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one's mind more relaxed ;-) . Basically, what I have seen is that many |
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people worry about backing up files when at work, but completely forget |
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about it on personal computers. |
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Best regards, and good luck! |
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Francisco |