Current situation
Home FreeNAS working well. Basically backup purposes plus some jails and VM
4 * 3TB WD Reds in Raidz2. 90% used. Boot device SSD, Motherboard only supports 5 SATA connections (therefore all used)
Finances could cover any option but would rather not just at the moment!
So... My thoughts would be
1. Swap SSD boot device to USB boot stick and use the spare SATA for a spare 3TB WD Green lying around (unmirrored for TM Backup)
2. Buy a SATA PCIe (Hardware list = 120quid) and stick my 3TB WD Green in (un mirrored etc)
3. Buy bigger disks and swap to expand current storage pool (400quid for not THAT much space (4*4Tb))
4. Stick a USB external drive on the back to offload my TimeMachine backup to (assume usb can cope with that?)
Some other cost effective solution? I never thought I'd be comtemplating needing this much space at home!!!
Home FreeNAS working well. Basically backup purposes plus some jails and VM
4 * 3TB WD Reds in Raidz2. 90% used. Boot device SSD, Motherboard only supports 5 SATA connections (therefore all used)
Finances could cover any option but would rather not just at the moment!
So... My thoughts would be
1. Swap SSD boot device to USB boot stick and use the spare SATA for a spare 3TB WD Green lying around (unmirrored for TM Backup)
2. Buy a SATA PCIe (Hardware list = 120quid) and stick my 3TB WD Green in (un mirrored etc)
3. Buy bigger disks and swap to expand current storage pool (400quid for not THAT much space (4*4Tb))
4. Stick a USB external drive on the back to offload my TimeMachine backup to (assume usb can cope with that?)
Some other cost effective solution? I never thought I'd be comtemplating needing this much space at home!!!