External Software

Schmarvin · March 31, 2016

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 · March 31, 2016

how about just replacing your drivers with a larger one

Schmarvin · March 31, 2016

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 · March 31, 2016

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 · March 31, 2016

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.

mcraftax · March 31, 2016

Yes you can run software/program located on another machine (i was testing it the other day).

You will have to setup shares and all that stuff. Then you can run it my running the application but for it to work with other things on your computer you will have to set the PATH for that program to the address on the share.

For example (i was testing this):

I had python on one pc and had it shared with another.

I could run it by clicking on the run file but could not using it from console (cmd/powershell) (e.g.>>>python) so I had to set the PATH for python to the share.