2015-04-28 5:39 GMT-03:00 Dale <rdalek1...@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
