Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Dipping in and out again

[sundancer 43745xp 0]

Technically you are correct BUT:

I’m not a fan of “flying drives”. That’s why I’m running a TrueNAS setup at home. Keeps all things in one place and secure. Redundancy, Backups, family videos etc. Thing is: that one is also almost “filled up”.

So in order to move unneeded archive material I would need to have more space in my NAS. Which is running 4 drives in a RAID-Z2 config. Originally it was 4 x 1TB giving me 2TB of “secure NAS space”. At one point in time one of the drives failed and needed to be replaced. So out 1TB, in 4TB for “future proofing”. To get more space on the NAS I now need to add either a) more drives (which can’t happen since there are no more SATA ports available) or b) switch the remaining 1TB drives for 4TB ones.

And those drives go for around 100€ when you buy ones that are meant for 24/7 operation. So 300€.

And with that, we’re back to my old problem: funds. I’ll be needing to save up the funds to get the drives swapped. (also it’s a PITA to get the drives out of the case as there is a cooler fan in front… )

I’ll get there… eventually… as always XD