How to use extra NVMEs

zuluromeo

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May 12, 2019
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Hello,

I have a computer with three slots for NVMe's which all have 4TB drives in them. I installed Proxmox onto one of them and have been storing everything there. The other two were going to be used for something else. I ended up not doing what I thought I would and now have two 4TB NVMe's sitting empty in my system. I have a very small environment using just above 50% of the local-lvm. My local is only 37% full (default of 100GB). I have a QNAP JBOD 8-bay USB storage attached and used in a unraid VM. I do not want to have to reinstall everything to use ZFS (nor do I feel like learning how to use ZFS at this point). What is the best way to add the other NVMe's? I do not think adding them to the current LVM-Thin is wise in case one fails. Do I just add two more LVM-Thins and use one as a "backup" (I have nothing on here that would cause me to shed a tear if I lost it).

I am over thinking this and just need some perspective.
Thank you!
 

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