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How to keep adding on (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So like many of us, is started out small, and have been progressing to needing more storage. Right now, I have 2 synology nas devices and a lot of random external drives (yay adhd).

My question is, when i need more space again, should I buy another nas, or try upgrading my drives to larger ones? The issue is find with upgrading is i wont have a way to move all my files from the smaller drives to the larger drives.

I was also thinking I should have another server or something to back up both my existing nas. Not sure. I worry im not doing it right.

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 points 7 months ago

Depends a lot on budget, space, and electricity costs. Going to 'overkill' level once can save a lot of these issues down the line.

Mine started similarly, some small box with a couple drives that got up sized and then moved to another to add more...

Eventually I bought a used 2U box with 14 bays and set it up with a ZFS pool all made up of mirrored disk pairs and auto snapshots so it can have a drive fail without issue and go back 2 weeks if something gets oops deleted.

Downside, now the whole lab uses about 700 watts continually so the power bill is kinda nuts.