My 12-bay NAS has only about 10TB left. That’ll last a while, but Linux repos add up.

What are my options for increasing?

  1. Are the Synology expansion units recommended?

  2. Get a whole 'nother 12-bay and just use it separately?

  3. …??? Not sure.

I’m definitely a novice at network/computer stuff. Any tips?

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  1. You could add more with a usb/thunderbolt/sas jbod expansion.

  2. Buy a bigger unit, transfer the drives and sell the old one

  3. Clustering/hyperconverged with truenas or ceph

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Some more info would be nice, like what size are the drives you’re using atm?

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Twelve bays, each with 14TB. I don’t need/use it for anything other than storage, really. A couple small-level docker things.

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As you’re already using large disks if I was in your situation I’d 100% get an expansion.

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