++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[eldorado99]

ni

 

[eldorado99]

ni

 

[Jeff7]

Reminder: They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[MongGrel]

Ni

 

[MongGrel]

Genocide Ni.

 

[sdifox]

Reminder: They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.

Have pot and fire ready?

 

[sdifox]

added a 4 TB drive nef.

 

[sdifox]

ni

 

[sdifox]

humm, intriguing

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...enclosure&qid=1452109462&ref_=sr_1_14&sr=8-14

 

[EliteRetard]

humm, intriguing

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...enclosure&qid=1452109462&ref_=sr_1_14&sr=8-14

Biggest drives are only 10TB right? You're gonna need a 40U rack just to store all your pirated Blu-Rays...amirite?

 

[sdifox]

Biggest drives are only 10TB right? You're gonna need a 40U rack just to store all your pirated Blu-Rays...amirite?

used racks are cheap.

 

[sdifox]

maybe I should just build backblaze pod 5.0

 

[sdifox]

lulz 45 hdds

 

[sdifox]

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-hardware/

 

[EliteRetard]

lulz 45 hdds

Are they limited to 4TB for some reason?
If you could fit 45x 8-10TB drives...would be nice.

 

[sdifox]

Are they limited to 4TB for some reason?
If you could fit 45x 8-10TB drives...would be nice.

price point I think. Just not cost effective for them.

 

[EliteRetard]

Wasn't sure if it was some physical limitation. So you could buy the chassis and then fill it with whatever size drives you wanted.

 

[sdifox]

Wasn't sure if it was some physical limitation. So you could buy the chassis and then fill it with whatever size drives you wanted.

yeap

 

[sdifox]

45x4=180 as it is. going to 10TB drives would give you 450TB in one enclosure... nuts.

 

[sdifox]

Hitachi HE8 drives are like 600 a pop... x 45 = 27K on hdd...gives you 360TB.

 

[RPD]

nef

 

[sdifox]

Wish I can afford 45 He8 drives.

 

[Red Squirrel]

humm, intriguing

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...enclosure&qid=1452109462&ref_=sr_1_14&sr=8-14

I heard bad things about those such as backplanes going bad, or them shipping with missing parts etc. As tempting as they are you are better off saving the aggravation and going with the Supermicro version. You also get redundant PSU, which is kinda a must for storage.

The biggest challenge with these setups is getting enough sata ports though. I really wish they'd make jbod non raid cards that have like 24 ports so you don't have to use up so many PCI slots with small 8 port cards. I like doing the raid at the software level, more expandable and less reliant on hardware, and can be setup live. I use SSD for OS to reduce chance of failure.

I'm in need of a storage upgrade myself, need to retire my old raid 5 array that has a bunch of 1TB drives so I can liberate some slots and make a new array with bigger drives.

I also want to eventually revamp my storage structure in general, maybe look at some kind of iSCSI shared storage setup, as most of my data is VMs anyway, so there would be less overhead going with block storage. It gets more complicated if you want more than one VM host though, which I eventually do want to do, as iSCSI by nature is not shared.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have to stop thinking about ways to spend money.