But if you _do_ need a whole bunch of SATA disks, it's hard to beat a bunch of R720XDs. I have a small fleet of them and they're actually not that noisy or pow

But if you _do_ need a whole bunch of SATA disks, it's hard to beat a bunch of R720XDs. I have a small fleet of them and they're actually not that noisy or power-hungry if you 1) disable cpus 2) undervolt remaining cpus 3) write your own fan controller off of raw ipmi byte sequences By far one of the best cost/pb mass storage solutions. I have a bunch of NUCs and SBCs too, but they're definitely suited for different purposes. One of these days I'll buy a surplus Isilon cluster or two and truly achieve bulk storage apotheosis. Cbf fighting Ceph in my spare time as well.