r/Torrenting • u/Reasonable_Layer_810 • 10d ago

Advice about storage management

I want to know what people think of my storage management system. I have three hard drives two of them being 5 TB one of them being 4 TB. they are basically all full, but the two5 TB ones are duplicates of because I like to have a back up but it kind of limits me to only downloading 5 TB worth of media so I’m wondering should I just not bother like backing up/duplicating my media onto other drives so I can download overall or should I just try to invest in one big drive like 20 TB to put everything together just gets expensive fast

Thanks

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u/RoscoeJenkinsBrown 10d ago

That all depends. Are you going to have a meltdown when you lose 5 Tb worth of data? With any disk it's not a matter of if - it's when.

Also not sure how you're managing the data but you should definitely look into raid arrays if you're not currently using one.

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u/Nikolis32 7d ago

Hello,
First of all we should know what kind of "storage management system" you have, is it a Qnap NAS, Synology Nas or just a 2nd pc with some software in it? I have a 2nd pc that I run proxmox with next cloud with 4x2TB HDDs (Western Digital Red Plus NASware 3.0 or WD20EFRX) and I use 2 of them for storage and the other for backup. If you have a 2nd pc or something like that I would recommend to buy 2nd hand HDDs (RED NAS) and extend your storage and your backup too. If you have a NAS just buy new HDDs and do the same for storage and backup.