<div dir="ltr">That may be a possibility. I may be able to tie them down with a bit of creative zip tie-ing. :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:12 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you don't have problem with appearance and handling, then get<br>
SATA/power extension cable out from the 2.5" bays, and plug your 3.5"<br>
harddisks.<br>
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William Park <<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>><br>
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:41:14AM -0400, Colin Mackay wrote:<br>
> At the moment all my KODI shares are on the 'desktop' server, all stored on<br>
> a single USB drive with no redundancy. *slaps hand* Bad.<br>
><br>
</span>> I really wanna get away from *this* desktop doing anything important.<br>
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> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Charles McColm <<br>
> <a href="mailto:charlesm@theworkingcentre.org">charlesm@theworkingcentre.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > I did this for about a year with our KODI server mounting the 1TB drive in<br>
> > another machine. That drive developed non-fatal SMART errors, but it was a<br>
> > few years old, went through several power-outages with no UPS, and was a<br>
> > Seagate 1TB model known to have issues. I was able to pull off all the data<br>
> > on to a 2TB drive later, but we stopped using the 1 TB drive.<br>
> ><br>
> > Our XBMC/KODI server NFS mounted the drive, which was stored in a box in<br>
> > another room. This was how we stored our ripped movies for a good 1+ years.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Charles McColm, <a href="mailto:cr@theworkingcentre.org">cr@theworkingcentre.org</a><br>
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> > From: kwlug-disc [<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org</a>] on behalf of William Park<br>
> > via kwlug-disc [<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>]<br>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:36 PM<br>
> > To: <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br>
> > Cc: William Park<br>
> > Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Adding storage to a rack mount server<br>
> ><br>
> > The cheapest option would be NFS. Mount the desktop from 2U server.<br>
> > $0.00 hardware cost. Zero hardware change.<br>
> > --<br>
> > William Park <<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>><br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:20:42PM -0400, Colin Mackay wrote:<br>
> > > Greetings.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I have come into possession of a DL380 G6 2U server to replace the<br>
> > desktop<br>
> > > server I have at home. The desktop has two internal, 3.5" 2TB SATA<br>
> > drives,<br>
> > > in a software raid 1. Currently I have 8 2.5" 146GB SAS drives in the<br>
> > new<br>
> > > server, but I'd like to increase space at as low a cost as possible.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > All I use the drives for are MythTV recordings and general storage of<br>
> > > pictures and documents. Current usage is 1.1TB or 638GB without Myth<br>
> > > recordings. :)<br>
> > ><br>
> > > My options seem to be:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > 1. buying 2x 2.5" 2TB SATA drives<br>
> > > - About $250<br>
> > > - Probably most reliable option<br>
> > ><br>
> > > 2. Using my current two drives in a USB RAID1 device<br>
> > > - Cheaper, but...<br>
> > > - No idea which one to use, there are dozens of them.<br>
> > > - Not sure how I'd know if a drive failed<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > I planned to use ESX on this server, so if I did go with USB option, not<br>
> > > certain of the reliability of mounting USB drives on a guest OS.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Any thoughts, or suggestions out there? Something I haven't thought of?<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > Thanks!<br>
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