[gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Howdy,

I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition.  I'm going to
be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there.  The
4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before
to long.  So, I got to thinking, why not buy another 3TB drive and just
add that which would double my space.  I use LVM by the way.  I may try
BTFS, (sp?).   Either way, adding a drive shouldn't be to much of a
problem. 

On one hand, adding a drive would double my space.  It would also spread
out my stuff in the event a drive failed.  On the other hand, one more
drive to have spinning that could fail too.  These large drives makes me
wonder sometimes. 

What do you guys, gals too, think about this?  Just add a drive or buy a
larger drive and move things over?  Or is this a six of one and half
dozen of the other thing? 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.


Filesystem                                Size      Used     Avail    
Use%     Mounted on
/dev/mapper/Home2-Home2    2.7T     1.8T      945G      66%     /home