From: Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:49:17 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHH9eM6MaUXbz3hmXiP_F6-57FLA7-1319T1=BHk5uUzdqYjEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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2015-04-28 5:39 GMT-03:00 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
>
>
>
>
I've already had my /home partition filled up, and it was just one of the
partitions on the only hard drive inside this machine.
Nowadays I have 3 more hard drives on this same machine, which makes 4
drives in total. None of them so big, though, the newest one is 1TB.
Now, talking about redundancy, if you worry about many - or all - of your
files, perhaps you should consider a RAID. Although expensive, it makes
one's mind more relaxed ;-) . Basically, what I have seen is that many
people worry about backing up files when at work, but completely forget
about it on personal computers.
Best regards, and good luck!
Francisco
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-28 8:39 [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions Dale
2015-04-28 14:49 ` Francisco Ares [this message]
2015-04-28 15:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-28 15:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 17:38 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 18:31 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-28 18:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-28 22:02 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-04-29 1:24 ` Rich Freeman
2015-04-29 6:20 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29 14:31 ` Grant Edwards
2015-04-29 6:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2015-04-29 7:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 7:39 ` Dale
2015-05-04 7:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 8:13 ` Mick
2015-05-04 8:26 ` Dale
2015-05-04 8:23 ` Dale
2015-05-04 10:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-04 10:40 ` Dale
2015-05-04 11:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-09 10:56 ` Dale
2015-05-09 12:59 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-09 14:46 ` Todd Goodman
2015-05-09 18:16 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 11:35 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 18:42 ` Nuno Magalhães
2015-05-05 6:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-05-05 10:56 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 11:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:05 ` Mick
2015-05-05 12:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 12:39 ` Mick
2015-05-05 12:53 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-05 21:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-05 22:21 ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-05 22:33 ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-05-04 10:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-28 15:02 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-04 7:23 ` Dale
2015-05-05 3:01 ` Walter Dnes
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2018-11-09 1:16 Dale
2018-11-09 1:31 ` Jack
2018-11-09 1:43 ` Dale
2018-11-09 2:04 ` Andrew Lowe
2018-11-09 2:07 ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09 8:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-09 2:29 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09 8:17 ` Bill Kenworthy
2018-11-09 13:25 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-09 9:02 ` J. Roeleveld
2018-11-11 0:45 ` Dale
2018-11-11 21:41 ` Wol's lists
2018-11-11 22:17 ` Dale
2018-11-09 9:24 ` Wols Lists
2015-04-27 7:41 Dale
2015-04-28 18:25 ` Daniel Frey
2015-04-28 21:23 ` Dale
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