May 2, 20251 yr So I currently have 9 8TB drive 2 parity and 7 data. And 2 SSD for cash. Im on a plus license so can only add one more drive on that license. My oldest drives are from Dac 2021. What do I do I cannot make my mind up. The cheapest thing to do would be to add a new 8 TB drive that will keep me going for a year or two. Then I would need to upgrade pro license and to add any more drives. I could get 2 16TB drive and replaces parity drives. And move one of the old parity drives as data drive that would give me 8TB of new data space. When as I need more space I swap out the old 8TB for new 16TB drive. I have space in the case for 7 more 3.5 inch drives and I have a 16 part HBA. What stopping me for just being cheap and add more and more drives its more points of failure more power and more heat. What should i do.
May 2, 20251 yr 4 hours ago, 12_purple_giraffes said: 8 TB drive that will keep me going for a year or two. I would assume disk life ~4-5yrs, if capacity growth rate higher then that cycle, then I would suggest buying 16TB. Otherwise, you may end up have many disk but still lack of capacity. 4 hours ago, 12_purple_giraffes said: I could get 2 16TB drive and replaces parity drives. And move one of the old parity drives I would buy one 16TB first and keep the plus license. I like buy 4 disk in once in price dip cycle, except we got down trend again for TB/$ then will buy one by one. Edited May 2, 20251 yr by Vr2Io
May 3, 20251 yr Author 17 hours ago, Vr2Io said: I would assume disk life ~4-5yrs, if capacity growth rate higher then that cycle, then I would suggest buying 16TB. Otherwise, you may end up have many disk but still lack of capacity. I would buy one 16TB first and keep the plus license. I like buy 4 disk in once in price dip cycle, except we got down trend again for TB/$ then will buy one by one. I must be missing something why would I what to add one 16TB drive. My 2 parity drive are 8TB so im not able to add the 16TB as data. So it would be a parity drive giving mixed size parity drives (That I think world work?) and give me one old parity drive to move to data. So this is like a middle ground its chapter today then doing both parity drives but at some time I would still need to buy 2 16TB drives in a year or two to upgrade the one 8TB parity drive and one 8TB data. I would maybe save a small bit doing this way.
May 3, 20251 yr 40 minutes ago, 12_purple_giraffes said: So it would be a parity drive giving mixed size parity drives (That I think world work?) and give me one old parity drive to move to data. Yes, work
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