Hi,
So I love my Gen 8. Running WS 2019 and it's mainly a media/plex box and has some archive files on it. It's been a project that has grown over time and as such the storage is all over the place. Physically it has:
120GB SSD (Windows)
3 TB WD Red
6 TB Seagate
4 TB WD Red
4 TB WD Red
They were all setup on individual RAID 0 arrays. So first mistake there.
Second issue I have cause myself is one of the 4TBs ran out of space so I setup a storage pool to expand it. I should have done some more reading up on this as I'm not really sure how a storage pool treats data. (Is a storage pool the same as storage spaces?)
I have disabled and pulled one of the drives out that made up part of the storage pool (then replaced with the 6TB drive). I don't know how the data is handled and if I should be missing files or if I am going to encounter corrupt files?
That's not really the help I need though. Really I need to get a RAID setup and I'm looking for advice as to how I should proceed. I know I should probably buy another drive so perhaps another 4TB to replace the 3TB? Then have the 3 drives in RAID 5? That give me 8 TB (RAID) and 6 TB (Seagate) of usable space.
Then I'm stuck with the issue of moving that data. I guess I need to move it off somewhere to be able to move it back after the RAID is configured. So the reality is I need storage to move it across to. So do I just buy new larger drives?
I use Windows Server Backup to back up just my main Windows drive. Windows backup insists on a dedicated drive to backup to. Is there anyway around this or any free alternative to backup this drive automatically?
I don't know where to start really. I have come to accept that I will have to drop some money down on drives. Can anyone just tell me what I should do!
So I love my Gen 8. Running WS 2019 and it's mainly a media/plex box and has some archive files on it. It's been a project that has grown over time and as such the storage is all over the place. Physically it has:
120GB SSD (Windows)
3 TB WD Red
6 TB Seagate
4 TB WD Red
4 TB WD Red
They were all setup on individual RAID 0 arrays. So first mistake there.
Second issue I have cause myself is one of the 4TBs ran out of space so I setup a storage pool to expand it. I should have done some more reading up on this as I'm not really sure how a storage pool treats data. (Is a storage pool the same as storage spaces?)
I have disabled and pulled one of the drives out that made up part of the storage pool (then replaced with the 6TB drive). I don't know how the data is handled and if I should be missing files or if I am going to encounter corrupt files?
That's not really the help I need though. Really I need to get a RAID setup and I'm looking for advice as to how I should proceed. I know I should probably buy another drive so perhaps another 4TB to replace the 3TB? Then have the 3 drives in RAID 5? That give me 8 TB (RAID) and 6 TB (Seagate) of usable space.
Then I'm stuck with the issue of moving that data. I guess I need to move it off somewhere to be able to move it back after the RAID is configured. So the reality is I need storage to move it across to. So do I just buy new larger drives?
I use Windows Server Backup to back up just my main Windows drive. Windows backup insists on a dedicated drive to backup to. Is there anyway around this or any free alternative to backup this drive automatically?
I don't know where to start really. I have come to accept that I will have to drop some money down on drives. Can anyone just tell me what I should do!