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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)
In-Reply-To: <553F474E.4040101@gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-28 14:50 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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