Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

[Andrew Lowe]

Firstly sorry about the top post, on the phone.

    I've had the same sort of thing happen to me. I was lucky to have available sata ports so bought two WD 8TB video archive drives and attached them to the MB. The card idea from the previous post is basically the same thing. 

    In turn the archive drives will spin down after about 10 minutes, you will hear this happen and is a bit disconcerting the first couple of times, and use hardly any power. In turn if you need anything from the drives it takes just a few seconds to spin up again.

    In comparison to a small NAS thingy, I'm way ahead. No purchase of bare NAS, and much lower power consumption. Much higher data transfer rates as well. Having said that, I may have to buy a NAS in the long run as a backup for other purposes.

      Andrew

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Sent: Fri., 09 Nov. 2018 9:43
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

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


I hadn't thought of adding a SATA card.  I have a ethernet card and the
video card and I don't think there are any others.  I should have some
open slots there.  Well, that is one idea that I hadn't thought of. 
lol  Since I have a LARGE case, Cooler Master HAF-932, I have space for
more drives.  I think this thing holds like nine or ten pretty easy. 

Thanks.  Another option to look into. 

Dale

:-)  :-)