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> pretty easy until somewhere over 10TB. 10TB is not even the largest single HDD money can buy... and I wouldn't use a single drive anyways. What I'd do... The
by chx 7y ago
> pretty easy until somewhere over 10TB.
10TB is not even the largest single HDD money can buy... and I wouldn't use a single drive anyways. What I'd do... There's the new Silverstone CS381 chsasis with is <30L (so it easily fits anywhere) and houses eight 3.5" hot swap disks plus 4 2.5" for boot and a micro ATX PC... Looking at https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/ I'd go with the Seagate 8TB drives at 120 bucks by shucking them from external and then you need a cheap uATX board and an LSI-9207-8i card.
- SturgeonsLaw 7y agoThank you, I've been looking for a good home NAS solution, this looks like it could be it
- PowerfulWizard 7y agoYeah I was vague on the size because it depends how you build it ... If I were to do it I'd most likely want a 2x replication factor locally, a rebuild time under 12 hours for a drive loss, and set a threshold around 80% storage use where I'd need to expand. Staying within those parameters I would expect maintenance to be easier and unrushed. I think that would send me towards smaller drives, but haven't properly analyzed it. I've been meaning to figure out how to set all that up with a ZFS system. Ironically it would be so much easier to build and test on cloud servers so I would probably do that first. That case does look very nice for a storage box though.