Can I take multiple drives and make them one?

[LoocPac]

I have a dell server with multiple drives, with quite a bit of help I was able to get a VM running with a Docker for Minecraft server. Recently we got another docker going with Jellyfin for a media server. I quickly found out that the space goes quick when you start loading lots of media in. I have 2 unused drives, but the person helping me only has experience running a server from an old pc with single drive. Is there a way to tie multiple drives together to make them basically one drive and directory that I can use for media, or would I be better off getting a single larger drive and moving the media to that drive?

Any help would be great, thank you.

 

[Dunuin]

Have a look at a software raid0 or JBOD. But both aren't great as it will increase the chances that you will lose all that data on all disks.
What you usually would prefer is creating a software raid5 or raid6 if you care about your data. But then all those disks should have the same size and performance characteristics. Or if you care about your data and performance, then a raid10.

 

[Kingneutron]

I would advise getting 2x larger drives if you have the budget, and put them in a ZFS mirror.

 

[LoocPac]

I would advise getting 2x larger drives if you have the budget, and put them in a ZFS mirror.

That seems to be the current idea is to just get one massive drive. I cant use proxmox ZFS "ZFS is not compatable with disks backed by a hardware RAID controller"

 

[Dunuin]

I cant use proxmox ZFS "ZFS is not compatable with disks backed by a hardware RAID controller"

You can, but it's not recommended.With a hardware raid controller you could use that to create your raid.

 

[LoocPac]

You can, but it's not recommended.With a hardware raid controller you could use that to create your raid.

Looks like more beating my head against the wall trying to figure that out. The internet is full of so much that is not relivent, or so overly complicated, that I can never find an answer.

 

[Dunuin]

Whatever storage you use, you will have to spend some hours researching and learning how to administrate it properly. Otherwise you increase the chances to do something stupid risking your data.

And hard to give any advice without knowing the hardware (what disk models, what disk controller) and how you set up your PVE (ZFS, LVM, and so on).