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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Is it possible to link drives together in a desperation effort to get more space? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by DrWho345@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I had to recently go from a 10TB to an 18TB. Cloning process took forever, but now works perfectly.

However, when the inevitable time comes, and the drive is eventually full (hopefully that takes a long time) I am unsure what steps to take then.

Currently the max hard drive space, commercially available (unless I am mistaken) is 22TB, I did see a post online stating 24TB is available but don't know when, and just guessing, it will be super expensive.

I know the thought of going from 10TB to 18TB was amazing, (Yay free 8TB, that will keep me going for awhile) but then it won't and I'll have to do this all over again, but my options will (at least currently be) 20TB, 22TB or 24TB, which only provides another 2-4-6TB free.

Is it possible to link an existing drive, to another one? or anything like that.

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