Repository Volumes

asked on August 6, 2024

Hello,

We have four repositories and each one has their own server. Over time as drive space has filled, we would add another drive using a new letter and start pointing to that in the admin console. Example - started with E: and when that got to 10-20% remaining, we created an F: and pointed to that, and so forth.

For one repo/server, we started pointing to a new drive when we still had plenty of room on the previous one. We have an E, F, G, H, I, and J, but still have over 400 GB remaining on H and over 300 on I. Is it okay to change it back to H or I, even though we're saving new docs to J currently? I would hate to leave that space unused, but if it's not good practice, we'll move forward to K when the time comes.

Any help or guidance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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replied on August 6, 2024

The reason for the 10-20% remainder is to allow for users to add pages to an existing document which might be on the volume of any drive. If that is not important or you just don't need that much space for adding pages, then go ahead and switch back to those volumes until it is at a % more reasonable.

It might be time to start buying bigger drives or maybe replace all your E-I with a single platter drive and only keep your recent data on a smaller high speed drives.

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replied on August 7, 2024

Thanks for your response, @████████.

I agree with the 10-20% for adding pages to existing documents. We just started pointing to a new one before that threshold was met on a couple of previous drives. A couple we have around 35% (300GB) free and I didn't want to waste that space if we could point back to previous ones to add to it without breaking anything.

I'm not familiar with single platter drives, but I will bring this up to our operations manager. Thanks again for your input.

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replied on August 7, 2024

By a single platter drive I mean that platter drives can hold much more storage for the same price, so you can store what your storing across all those 2TB solid drives on a single 20TB platter drive. You take a huge performance hit, but for archived documents it likely will not even show unless they are being accessed continuously at every moment by the public or something.

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