Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Dale]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:30 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> One thing I like about the Raspberry option, I can upgrade it later.  I
>> can simply take out the old, put in new, upgrade done.  If I buy a
>> prebuilt NAS, they pretty much are what they are if upgrading isn't a
>> option.  Some of the more expensive ones may be upgradable, maybe.
> The NAS gets you a nice box.  The nice box means fixed capacity.
>
> I just use USB3 external hard drives.  They're cheaper and easy to
> interface.  USB3 also has been less likely to give me ATA interface
> errors compared to SATA.
>
>> I just wonder, could I use that board and just hook it to my USB port
>> and a external power supply and skip the Raspberry Pi part?  I'd bet not
>> tho.  ;-)
> Not that one, but USB3-SATA interfaces exist and aren't that
> expensive.  You can also get nice little enclosures.  You can have as
> many hard drives as you want on a PC that way, or whatever the USB3
> limit is.
>

One thing about all the recent upgrades, I have extra hard drives. 
Also, if I go the Raspberry path and can still use cryptsetup, LVM etc,
I can just move the drives I'm currently using and may not even have to
move a lot of data around.  Just insert a drive, add another drive with
LVM to increase space and done for the large directory.  Then in other
two bays, do the same or have two different LVM pools or whatever they
called.  All total, OS and all, I have almost 42TBs of storage inside my
running system.  I have a 16TB new drive for backup of large directory
and a 8TB and 6TB for other data backups which include /root, my
Documents directory and such. 

One way or another, I'm going to figure this out.  lol  I got too.  ;-)

I think back sometimes, I started out with a 30GB hard drive waaaay back
in 2003.  I thought I had problems then.  O_O 

Dale

:-)  :-)