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My 8 TB NAS gets out of disk space - Update Disks or go to AV Server?
blgentry:
That "upgrade capacity in place" might work great. Or it might not. RAID controllers and devices can be a little strange sometimes. Not always. Just sometimes.
I would personally make sure I had a full backup of EVERYTHING before starting. You can easily lose all of your data during a RAID rebuild. ...and if you have a back anyway, why do an in place rebuild? Just start with the bigger drives and copy from your backup to the new system. Keep the old drives sitting in a box, safe and secure, for a few days until you're absolutely sure you got everything. Those old drives are another form of backup.
Just some friendly advice.
Brian.
Manfred:
To summarize it:
- most vote to upgrade the NAS instead to go for a media server.
Thank you very much to all who contribute to my post!
In the second half of 2017 I will decide, after I got the rest of my Dias ~2000 scanned and put them under the management of MC (13 000 audio FLAC files, 1400 video files incl. home videos, 12 000 images, 150 doc's).
kr4:
--- Quote from: blgentry on June 13, 2017, 08:45:56 am ---That "upgrade capacity in place" might work great. Or it might not. RAID controllers and devices can be a little strange sometimes. Not always. Just sometimes.
I would personally make sure I had a full backup of EVERYTHING before starting. You can easily lose all of your data during a RAID rebuild. ...and if you have a back anyway, why do an in place rebuild?
--- End quote ---
Because it is faster and less tedious. I've done it twice (involuntarily) but it worked fine.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: kr4 on June 13, 2017, 04:56:01 pm ---Because it is faster and less tedious. I've done it twice (involuntarily) but it worked fine.
--- End quote ---
I'm not trying to argue here. But I kinda disagree. With a multi-RAID-rebuild, you're going to have N events. Where N is the number of drives you are replacing, and the number of RAID rebuilds that will happen. Each one has a (small) probability of something going wrong.
With a restore from backup, it's just firing off the restore and waiting. Sure, it might take 24 to 48 hours, depending on the size of the restore. But it's just one thing to do. Not 4 separate events.
Anyway. You guys can certainly do whatever you want. I'm just giving an opinion. :)
Brian.
mattkhan:
I agree. RAID is not a back up and rebuilding puts disks under increased load (which is when flaws tend to be exposed). I vote backup to a new, larger, store then switch to that as your live site.
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