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Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 5312dddb-7a3b-44c8-9fb1-177071935fdd X-Archives-Hash: 9d5bd65ee991df8bbf6a786841d15f4a Howdy to all, I have a interesting problem coming up.  Currently, I have two 3TB drives for my /home mount point.  A lot of this is videos but some pdf files and other documents as well plus a photo collection of family stuff etc.  Filesystem                                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/Home2-Home2        5.4T  3.7T  1.8T  68% /home I've got a little over 25% or so of usable space left.  At that point or shortly thereafter, it could start causing some issues according to what I've read anyway.  Either way, shortly after that, being full will certainly be a issue.  I'm full up on my motherboard SATA ports.  Even if I buy a larger drive or drives, I'd have to unplug one to move things over and likely repeat that a few times.  I could do that and likely will have to anyway but I'm trying to think a little farther ahead.  Currently I have the more important stuff backed up to a external single 6TB USB drive, previous thread on that.  I'm trying to come up with a plan that allows me to grow easier and without having to worry about running out of motherboard based ports.  I thought about a store bought enclosure with more than one hard drive that connects by ethernet.  The ones I've found are fairly expensive.  Doing it over USB concerns me for other reasons, USB isn't always that stable.  So, internal isn't working out to well long term.  Ethernet based is expensive, what I could find anyway.  USB isn't that stable.  I'm planning to upgrade my current system.  Upgrade the CPU, memory and maybe even the video card as well.  I thought about using a older spare motherboard, those removed components and building a mini system sort of thing.  I could have one small drive for a OS and then add large drives for storage.  Then I can access those from my main system, ethernet I would guess.  Even then, I'd still be limited to the SATA ports on the MOBO at some point but it would be a ways into the future.  So far tho, this is one of the better ideas.  So far.  Does anyone else have other ideas on how to do this?  Some method that I've never heard of but doesn't cost a lot of money to do?  Thanks in advance for any ideas.  I can't think of anything else.  ;-)  If you need more info, let me know.  Dale :-)  :-)