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When to switch to network storage (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been selfhosting a while. I run around 15 distinct services in docker containers, all on a single machine with a medium sized disk. It's a small form factor, and I recently had to add space, so I've attached an external USB storage device.

It feels clunky.

At what point does a performant SAN/NAS make sense more than local storage? When did you make the jump?

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago

When you run out of local storage...

If you have a single node, external USB storage is 100% fine. Even if you have more machines, if you don't actually need a massive amount of storage, you can share that external drive as NFS.

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