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- Oct 27, 2008
Hey guys,
I'm planning out a future HTPC and to save money I'm only going to buy half of drives I intend on using up front because it will take a while for me to fill them.
I had planned on just using JBOD to span the drives so as to search the libary seamlessly but I had concerns over future expansion of the JBOD array... Can the array be expanded without risking the existing data? The amount of data will be huge so a backup isn't really possible without the investment of a lot more HDD's and would kind of defeat the initial purpose of up-front cost saving.
I'm open to other options and opinions as well.
I'm planning out a future HTPC and to save money I'm only going to buy half of drives I intend on using up front because it will take a while for me to fill them.
I had planned on just using JBOD to span the drives so as to search the libary seamlessly but I had concerns over future expansion of the JBOD array... Can the array be expanded without risking the existing data? The amount of data will be huge so a backup isn't really possible without the investment of a lot more HDD's and would kind of defeat the initial purpose of up-front cost saving.
I'm open to other options and opinions as well.