janusfox 🍅Oh right, world wide computer part shortage. All hard drives that will be produced in 2026 are already bought and paid for.
FML.
Okay, ended up with 3 16TB drives and 3 22TB drives. I couldn't get 6 of anything in any reasonable time frame or price.
It's going to be a heck of a progress to replace the 4xRAID5 and 2xRAID1 arrays.
I need to rebuild the RAID1 twice, then grow it to the new size. Then I'll have enough room to migrate the RAID5 data over to it. Then I'll just build a new 3xRAID5, move that data back. Add another drive to the RAID1 and make it a second 3xRAID5.
Should only take me 2.4 years.
Denton@janusfox Good luck! I need to rebuild mine as it's starting to fill up.
... I picked the worst time for this so gonna try and clean up duplicates and junk files first.
@Denton Yeah duplicates are a constant issue. I even wrote some scripts to help reduce those. The issue these days seems to be raw video files for YT production.
I'll probably just start dumping a massive pile of these raw files on to old hard drives and let them sit on a shelf. It's the kind of thing that's hard to get rid of, but at the same time, shouldn't have money spent on storing it.