Wouldn't it be less annoying if you bought another box? Obviously adding another £1k to the project is also annoying, but you'd be starting with fresh and presumably upgraded hardware
Yeah thinking about it, I have a week to think about it.
The argument for upgrading that too is mostly the RAID controller being new and network being 10gbps which will be needed within the life of the hardware even if it's excessive today.
Wouldn't it be less annoying if you bought another box? Obviously adding another £1k to the project is also annoying, but you'd be starting with fresh and presumably upgraded hardware