I’m honestly a bit surprised that the time has already come but sure enough I’ve run out of space on my home server which hosts this blog. I did have 8 * 500GB Seagate 7200.10’s in a RAID5 configuration formatted for a total of 3.17TB of space. I can’t remember when I actually first got the volume set up and everything moved so I don’t really have a good idea of the average amount of new data per day. Regardless as of this moment I have 4.8GB free.

UPS just delivered the 4 * 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11’s today and I’m busily using robocopy to mirror all the data onto 1 of the 1.5TB drives and 1 spare 1.5TB I had spare. The scary thing is that the music content is over 600GB and the video content is over 1.2TB.

My plan is to hold the migrated data on the two separate drives and create the new RAID5 array with 3 drives then move the IIS data and the rest of the data back. Then adding the 4th 1.5TB to expand the entire set out to 6TB total, total amount of space should be 4.5TB or about 4.08TB formatted with NTFS. The extra .91TB of space should hopefully last long enough for me to be able to add 4 more 1.5TB drives next year.

Here’s hoping for a data loss free transition and little down time tomorrow while I create the new RAID volume. And here’s hoping I don’t use up the new drives as quickly not to mention have any issues with 7200.11 firmware .

Tags: Home Life