From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Disk upgrade Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:00:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4DF2DA5E.3020207@hardwarefreak.com> References: <4DF22587.60509@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DF22587.60509@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 6/10/2011 9:09 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm running out of room in a box to add drives, so I want to go to > larger drives. Unfortunately I have but one bay left. Cases are cheap. Buy a new case with plenty of bays and cooling: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147154 8 x 3.5" internal bays w/drive rails, 3 x 5.25" external bays, excellent cooling, $80 USD, reuse your current PSU and internals, grab a new PSU if needed to handle all the drives. If you start running out of 3.5" internal bays start adding these to your 5.25" bays: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994095 With current 2.5" drives you can get up to 12TB raw in the 3 5.25" bays on top of the 24TB raw available with the 8 3.5" bays, 36TB total. -- Stan