More storage space

Posted by mrga

I installed sparkbox on 256ssd , But in sparkbox it give me only 100gb, and its almost full. I put another 2TB for storage, spent 2 hours to make it work. Now I want to put 2x6tb and I am scarred what will get me in process. 1st question, how can I give more space to sistem, and not deleting all (in this 256gb) And 2nd, why we dont have in settings some easyer steps for giving more space for whole sistem? I want to use 2+6 for movie database and 6tb for immich.

1 replies

Chris wrote:

You’re right to pause before moving anything — a 256GB system SSD filling up is stressful, especially after spending two hours getting the second drive working. Please don’t delete or repartition the 256GB SparkBox drive. SparkBox has one supported Media Root, so it cannot currently combine a 2TB drive plus two 6TB drives into one system-wide storage pool, and adding another disk does not expand the system disk automatically. The safe supported direction is to choose one large drive as the Media Root and move the media library there; changing to a different Media Root is a migration, not a wipe. Before I give you the exact safe next step, what hardware/platform is this (UGREEN NAS, another NAS, Linux, or Windows/WSL), what SparkBox version are you running, and where is the 2TB drive mounted now? Also, are the two 6TB drives already formatted and visible to the host? I agree that adding storage should be easier from Settings; once I know the platform and current layout, I’ll give you one safe path for the movie library and a separate answer for Immich.