[kwlug-disc] Adding storage to a rack mount server

[Colin Mackay]

At the moment all my KODI shares are on the 'desktop' server, all stored on
a single USB drive with no redundancy.  *slaps hand*  Bad.

I really wanna get away from *this* desktop doing anything important.

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Charles McColm <
charlesm at theworkingcentre.org> wrote:

> I did this for about a year with our KODI server mounting the 1TB drive in
> another machine. That drive developed non-fatal SMART errors, but it was a
> few years old, went through several power-outages with no UPS, and was a
> Seagate 1TB model known to have issues. I was able to pull off all the data
> on to a 2TB drive later, but we stopped using the 1 TB drive.
>
> Our XBMC/KODI server NFS mounted the drive, which was stored in a box in
> another room. This was how we stored our ripped movies for a good 1+ years.
>
>
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> From: kwlug-disc [kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org] on behalf of William Park
> via kwlug-disc [kwlug-disc at kwlug.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:36 PM
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Cc: William Park
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Adding storage to a rack mount server
>
> The cheapest option would be NFS.  Mount the desktop from 2U server.
> $0.00 hardware cost.  Zero hardware change.
> --
> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:20:42PM -0400, Colin Mackay wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I have come into possession of a DL380 G6 2U server to replace the
> desktop
> > server I have at home.  The desktop has two internal, 3.5" 2TB SATA
> drives,
> > in a software raid 1.  Currently I have 8 2.5" 146GB SAS drives in the
> new
> > server, but I'd like to increase space at as low a cost as possible.
> >
> > All I use the drives for are MythTV recordings and general storage of
> > pictures and documents.  Current usage is 1.1TB or 638GB without Myth
> > recordings. :)
> >
> > My options seem to be:
> >
> > 1. buying 2x 2.5" 2TB SATA drives
> >   - About $250
> >   - Probably most reliable option
> >
> > 2. Using my current two drives in a USB RAID1 device
> >   - Cheaper, but...
> >     - No idea which one to use, there are dozens of them.
> >     - Not sure how I'd know if a drive failed
> >
> >
> > I planned to use ESX on this server, so if I did go with USB option, not
> > certain of the reliability of mounting USB drives on a guest OS.
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts, or suggestions out there?  Something I haven't thought of?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
>
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