I'm starting to get a notification that I've used up 80% of the space on my FreeNas machine. I have 6 3TB drives, with no additional room for more.
I was thinking about creating a new machine, maybe in a month or two, and wanted to think through some options.
I think it would be cheapest to conserve as much of what I'm currently using. That means that I wouldn't want to do something like replace the 3TB drives with 4TB drives. It makes more sense to buy a new machine with some additional drives to offload some of the current capacity. I'm curious about the best practices on running two FreeNas machines. Do people just run two CIFS shares (or whatever for Apple users) or is there some way to combine them into one pool?
The alternative would be to buy a bigger case with more spots for drives. It looks like there are some monster cases with 12 hard drive spots. It looks like there are more options if you have a server rack, but I don't. I feel the server rack thing comes back to whether to the question of how does it work to use multiple computers (i.e. you could buy 3 smaller rack servers instead of one big one).
I guess the question is build two machines or one bigger one.
I was thinking about creating a new machine, maybe in a month or two, and wanted to think through some options.
I think it would be cheapest to conserve as much of what I'm currently using. That means that I wouldn't want to do something like replace the 3TB drives with 4TB drives. It makes more sense to buy a new machine with some additional drives to offload some of the current capacity. I'm curious about the best practices on running two FreeNas machines. Do people just run two CIFS shares (or whatever for Apple users) or is there some way to combine them into one pool?
The alternative would be to buy a bigger case with more spots for drives. It looks like there are some monster cases with 12 hard drive spots. It looks like there are more options if you have a server rack, but I don't. I feel the server rack thing comes back to whether to the question of how does it work to use multiple computers (i.e. you could buy 3 smaller rack servers instead of one big one).
I guess the question is build two machines or one bigger one.