MitchellStringer Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 The situation is, that I have run out of hard drive space in my current case.(15 drives) Ideally I would like build another machine running Windows, with loads more disks, is it possible to combine disks from both machines into one pool? If not is there an alternative way to achieve it? Perhaps instead of running Windows on the second box, running Some kind of NAS OS? All ideas welcome bapedrib 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Unfortunately, no, not really. StableBit DrivePool only supports local storage. You could use iSCSI (common on many NAS devices) to add more "local storage", use StableBit CloudDrive's "File Share" provider to store disk info on the other system, or add more storage (SAS or eSATA or USB, externally). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MitchellStringer Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Unfortunately, no, not really. StableBit DrivePool only supports local storage. You could use iSCSI (common on many NAS devices) to add more "local storage", use StableBit CloudDrive's "File Share" provider to store disk info on the other system, or add more storage (SAS or eSATA or USB, externally). After some research,I have decided, I am going to build a 24 disk JBOD connected to the host (Windows 10) via SAS Passthrough, if everything works, the host should see all 24 drives individually and i should be able to manage them in Drivepool. Hopefully? Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 SAS is a great way to go, and what I'd recommend actually. Actually, if you check my link, I'm using SAS, and it works very well (SAS was designed for storage). And yes, it should pass the disks through, if you're using an HBA (vs a RAID card). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The situation is, that I have run out of hard drive space in my current case.(15 drives)
Ideally I would like build another machine running Windows, with loads more disks, is it possible to combine disks from both machines into one pool?
If not is there an alternative way to achieve it? Perhaps instead of running Windows on the second box, running Some kind of NAS OS?
All ideas welcome
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