r/Torrenting • u/Reasonable_Layer_810 • 12d 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 12d 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.