December 31, 20223 yr Someone help a poor beggar. I need more space, can you spare a terabyte or two? j/k I need to clean up I think or invest in larger hard drives. I never thought I would get this full!
January 2, 20233 yr Or user dupeguru to find duplicates that you can get rid of. I have the same problem on my backup server. I threw in an 8TB drive and used dupeguru to help manage the space. Eventually I'll add a couple more 18TB drives to that array. The sweet spot for drives right now is 16TB or 18TB. You'll get the best bang for your buck there and the newer drives are faster. I recommend that you splurge on a couple of those, add them as your parity drives, and then move the old parity drives to the array. That will give you space and it will speed up the array since the parity drives can be a bottleneck and now you'll have faster parity drives. This is what I've actually done with my file servers as you can see below.
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