IT Day 14Dec17

I ran out of space on the main 2TB server drive which held Plex data (TV recordings and associated metadata), our personal on-site server storages, and all our images and videos in raw and otherwise. There are already 8 drives on this Win7 Xeon quad-proc server (six Hitachi Ultrastars @ 2TB each and the system/OS/apps on a pair of Intel 500GB SSDs), so what to do? I got two new 4TB Ultrastars for ~$300 and migrated the primary server drive onto two 2TB drives - one dedicated to Plex and the other for images and our personal stuff. I then adjusted the Macrium Reflect backup strategy a smidge and added a 2nd 4TB drive for "other stuff." Performance up, capacity up - back online and complete after 4 hours or so ~ sure there were moments of panic. Anybody wanna buy some 2TB Hitachi Ultrastars? I use these drives due to reliability - they are from the old IBM group and still seem to have the best MTBFs. I am considering experimenting with a NAS box but that's at least another $300 for something that'd transcode video in real time and why do it if the Win7 continues to sing.