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On 2018.11.08 20:16, Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy to all, |
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> I have a interesting problem coming up. Currently, I have two 3TB |
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> drives for my /home mount point. A lot of this is videos but some pdf |
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> files and other documents as well plus a photo collection of family |
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> stuff etc. |
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> |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% |
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> Mounted on |
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> /dev/mapper/Home2-Home2 5.4T 3.7T 1.8T 68% /home |
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> |
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> I've got a little over 25% or so of usable space left. At that point |
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> or |
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> shortly thereafter, it could start causing some issues according to |
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> what |
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> I've read anyway. Either way, shortly after that, being full will |
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> certainly be a issue. I'm full up on my motherboard SATA ports. Even |
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> if I buy a larger drive or drives, I'd have to unplug one to move |
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> things |
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> over and likely repeat that a few times. I could do that and likely |
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> will have to anyway but I'm trying to think a little farther ahead. |
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> Currently I have the more important stuff backed up to a external |
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> single |
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> 6TB USB drive, previous thread on that. I'm trying to come up with a |
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> plan that allows me to grow easier and without having to worry about |
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> running out of motherboard based ports. |
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> |
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> I thought about a store bought enclosure with more than one hard drive |
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> that connects by ethernet. The ones I've found are fairly expensive. |
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> Doing it over USB concerns me for other reasons, USB isn't always that |
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> stable. So, internal isn't working out to well long term. Ethernet |
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> based is expensive, what I could find anyway. USB isn't that stable. |
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> I'm planning to upgrade my current system. Upgrade the CPU, memory |
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> and |
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> maybe even the video card as well. I thought about using a older |
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> spare |
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> motherboard, those removed components and building a mini system sort |
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> of |
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> thing. I could have one small drive for a OS and then add large |
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> drives |
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> for storage. Then I can access those from my main system, ethernet I |
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> would guess. Even then, I'd still be limited to the SATA ports on the |
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> MOBO at some point but it would be a ways into the future. So far |
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> tho, |
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> this is one of the better ideas. So far. Does anyone else have other |
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> ideas on how to do this? Some method that I've never heard of but |
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> doesn't cost a lot of money to do? |
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> Thanks in advance for any ideas. I can't think of anything else. |
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> ;-) |
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> If you need more info, let me know. |
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> |
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> Dale |
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If you have space on the mobo for another card, you should be able to |
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get an additional SATA card. I have no idea on prices, but I'd be |
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surprised if it's prohibitive. |
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Jack |
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