Hi,
I bought a HP Proliant G7 N54L a few months ago. It came with a 250GB drive, which was enough space to get a Plex server up and running.
I've now managed to configure OwnCloud and things are going well. The 250GB HDD isn't really big enough to accommodate my family's OwnCloud data and Plex requirements. I've ordered a 4TB Hitachi drive. What I'd like to do is:
What about the following?
Thanks,
Rob
I bought a HP Proliant G7 N54L a few months ago. It came with a 250GB drive, which was enough space to get a Plex server up and running.
I've now managed to configure OwnCloud and things are going well. The 250GB HDD isn't really big enough to accommodate my family's OwnCloud data and Plex requirements. I've ordered a 4TB Hitachi drive. What I'd like to do is:
- Fit the Hitachi drive alongside the 250GB drive
- Copy all data/jails/etc from the 250GB drive to the 4TB drive
- Remove the 250GB drive
- Buy another 4TB drive in the next couple of months, once I've got a bit more cash, and configure RAID so that the NAS can withstand a drive failure.
What about the following?
- Add the 4TB drive
- 'partition' the 4TB drive (volumes?) so that it contains a 250GB 'partition' and the other 3.75TB in another 'partition'
- Clone all the data currently on the 250GB drive onto this new 250GB section on the new HDD.
- Create a kind of bastardised RAID 1 where the 250GB section of the 4TB drive is mirrored by the existing 250GB HDD.
- Use the remaining 3.75TB of the 4TB drive as a 'media' folder referenced by the Plex jail. Obviously, this wouldn't be backed up anywhere, but I can accept that risk until I get a second 4TB drive.
Thanks,
Rob