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Just got a fantastic gift from my husband :) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So excited to consolidate my mess of drives and get a big boost to my storage.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Since this will only be the beginning bookmark this for later :P

Server Part Deals | Refurbished HDDs

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Lol it's so funny you say that. I got this because I've been wanting to consolidate 4 different drives in my gaming pc (about 5TB total). But as soon as I saw this I thought 'why should I get rid of perfectly good drives? I can have 17TB instead of 12'. It feels like I've got the seeds of a bad habit growing lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like it's time to get a NAS and make a RAID array. Btrfs, mergerfs, Synology's SHR, TrueNAS's multi drive size solution, and probably some other options I'm forgetting can accomplish RAID 1 across different drive sizes. Then your files are duplicated to other HDDs in case one fails. Then you can back up to Backblaze B2 to make sure you your data's backed up off site.

You can do a mixed drive raid solution on Windows with Windows Storage Spaces and backup to Backblaze computer backup for pretty cheap.

This is the upgrade I've been planning going from a 2 bay to 8 bay NAS. My wallet is not very happy with me... But the homelab must grow.

[–] realbadat 2 points 6 months ago

I'm glad my wife doesn't mind the 5 bay. Or the 8 bay I added to become the new main NAS and the other a backup.

..... Or the 4RU case stacked with drives.

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