# Expanding my userdata storage drive
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/expanding-my-userdata-storage-drive/21987
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [19 November 2024 21:23 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/expanding-my-userdata-storage-drive/21987 "2024-11-19T21:23:57Z")
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### Author:  [@TDuffinNTU](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/TDuffinNTU)
#### Post date: [19 November 2024 21:23 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/expanding-my-userdata-storage-drive/21987/1 "2024-11-19T21:23:57Z")
So my current system is just a raspberry pi 4 and 2.5TB of storage across 3 SSDs. It works, but the storage is running out and I need some more horsepower so I’m investing in some used parts to build a chunkier x86 system with a bunch of spinning disk storage. I’ve got offsite backups too, purely for the nextcloud instance I manage.
How do people here manage expanding stuff like their dietpi\_userdata drive? Do people here do fancy stuff like zfs pools or RAID setups or do you just rely on dietpi-drive\_manager?
I really like the idea of the redundancy with a RAID 1/5 setup but unless I use something like Proxmox there’s a lot of work in setting up/maintaining them from the looks.
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [20 November 2024 09:11 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/expanding-my-userdata-storage-drive/21987/2 "2024-11-20T09:11:35Z")
We have a series of blog posts on the subject of Raid
> **[Search Results for “Raid” – DietPi Blog](https://dietpi.com/blog/?s=Raid)**
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### Author:  [@system](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 May 2025 09:11 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/expanding-my-userdata-storage-drive/21987/3 "2025-05-19T09:11:49Z")
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