I was hitting 88% used space on my Unraid server but completely ran out of space in the U4 rack mounted case. Everything was so jammed, I was regularly receiving temp warning on hotter days. So it is time to swap the case and pull it out of the networking rack. I went with adding an 8TB drive while I was at it. This still puts me at 85.5 TB used of 106 TB. The nice thing is the new case will allow me to add six more 3.5″ drives and two 2.5″ before having to get creative.
I envision in the future, I will add a larger 12TB parity drive. Then I can upgrade the two 8TB drives to 12TB, gaining 8TB and more redundancy. I will use the two 8TB for offsite backup in a mirror raid.
