External Software

[Schmarvin]

I've come to a point where I'm using about 85-90% of my 1TB hard drive capacity for games/content. Now, I've got them in RAID 1 for redundancy, so that is 2x 1TB hard drives.

My issue is that I don't want to just add another hard drive (or two for another RAID 1) and nor do I want to add even more drives for a RAID 5 or RAID 10.

 

I was thinking of the option to spin up another VM on my server and install the programs/content to that as external storage. I have plenty of space on the server and a quad GB nic.

How well would this work? Any recommendations or objections?

[Enderman]

how about just replacing your drivers with a larger one

[Schmarvin]

Replacing the drives on my system would require re-installing everything because I would have to delete the RAID and create a new one with the larger drives. The RAID card doesn't support bumping capacity like that. Otherwise I would stagger a hard drive upgrade.

[ALwin]

12 minutes ago, Schmarvin said:

Replacing the drives on my system would require re-installing everything because I would have to delete the RAID and create a new one with the larger drives. The RAID card doesn't support bumping capacity like that. Otherwise I would stagger a hard drive upgrade.

Hmm you're using a physical RAID card and not a software RAID?

 

Can you set up two different RAID setups with the same physical card?  For example, connect 4 HDDs (2x 1TB and 2x 4TB). You currently have the 2x 1TB as a RAID 1 setup, add the 2x 4TB (I repeat, I am only using this as an example) as another RAID 1 setup.  Clone the drives and then change the driver letters?

[Schmarvin]

Unfortunately, only 1 RAID setup can be done. It was a fairly cheap card back in the day when I got it. Though, I may want to upgrade in the future, at this time, I wasn't planning on changing the raid card.