April 21, 201610 yr Over the past year my data usage of Unraid with dockers/Plex/Owncloud has grown exponentially. I'm at a point where my 20-bay Norco has long been fully populated with everything from 500GB, 1TB (all gone at this point) with 1.5 and 2TB drives being the holdovers and are being replaced with 4TB's at a pretty steady clip (11 of the 19 drives total). Total space is about 60TB with about 8TB available. I can grow to 76TB using 4's but want to start planning for the "next" step. Going to 8TB drives isn't cost effective (at least currently) per GB and I'm considering going to 6.2 beta to get additional drives. What cases should I be considering? New chassis entirely? SAS expander chassis?? Want to get up to speed on options out there and appreciate the recommendations! Thanks!!
April 23, 201610 yr Over the past year my data usage of Unraid with dockers/Plex/Owncloud has grown exponentially. I'm at a point where my 20-bay Norco has long been fully populated with everything from 500GB, 1TB (all gone at this point) with 1.5 and 2TB drives being the holdovers and are being replaced with 4TB's at a pretty steady clip (11 of the 19 drives total). Total space is about 60TB with about 8TB available. I can grow to 76TB using 4's but want to start planning for the "next" step. Going to 8TB drives isn't cost effective (at least currently) per GB and I'm considering going to 6.2 beta to get additional drives. What cases should I be considering? New chassis entirely? SAS expander chassis?? Want to get up to speed on options out there and appreciate the recommendations! Thanks!! 6.2 doesn't give you extra drives, per se. What it does instead is allow you the 25 drives for the array and something like 30 drives for a cache pool (outside the array). TBH, what I would do is start a new server as just a plain fileserver. Move all of your least accessed media onto it and try experimenting with S3 sleep on it.
April 29, 201610 yr Author Over the past year my data usage of Unraid with dockers/Plex/Owncloud has grown exponentially. I'm at a point where my 20-bay Norco has long been fully populated with everything from 500GB, 1TB (all gone at this point) with 1.5 and 2TB drives being the holdovers and are being replaced with 4TB's at a pretty steady clip (11 of the 19 drives total). Total space is about 60TB with about 8TB available. I can grow to 76TB using 4's but want to start planning for the "next" step. Going to 8TB drives isn't cost effective (at least currently) per GB and I'm considering going to 6.2 beta to get additional drives. What cases should I be considering? New chassis entirely? SAS expander chassis?? Want to get up to speed on options out there and appreciate the recommendations! Thanks!! 6.2 doesn't give you extra drives, per se. What it does instead is allow you the 25 drives for the array and something like 30 drives for a cache pool (outside the array). TBH, what I would do is start a new server as just a plain fileserver. Move all of your least accessed media onto it and try experimenting with S3 sleep on it. Woah--how I missed that fact about 6.2 when reading the notes is beyond me. Thanks Squid! Separating the backups/fileshare from the media is the direction then!
April 29, 201610 yr Over the past year my data usage of Unraid with dockers/Plex/Owncloud has grown exponentially. I'm at a point where my 20-bay Norco has long been fully populated with everything from 500GB, 1TB (all gone at this point) with 1.5 and 2TB drives being the holdovers and are being replaced with 4TB's at a pretty steady clip (11 of the 19 drives total). Total space is about 60TB with about 8TB available. I can grow to 76TB using 4's but want to start planning for the "next" step. Going to 8TB drives isn't cost effective (at least currently) per GB and I'm considering going to 6.2 beta to get additional drives. What cases should I be considering? New chassis entirely? SAS expander chassis?? Want to get up to speed on options out there and appreciate the recommendations! Thanks!! 6.2 doesn't give you extra drives, per se. What it does instead is allow you the 25 drives for the array and something like 30 drives for a cache pool (outside the array). TBH, what I would do is start a new server as just a plain fileserver. Move all of your least accessed media onto it and try experimenting with S3 sleep on it. Woah--how I missed that fact about 6.2 when reading the notes is beyond me. Thanks Squid! Separating the backups/fileshare from the media is the direction then! V6.2 allows 30 array disks plus a 24 disk cache pool.
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