Been building this server up for about 5 years, adding hard drives as needed.

Running unraid

E5-2698 v3
64gb ddr4 ecc
X99-E WS
P600 for transcoding
10gbit networking w/ 3gbit fibre WAN
15 HDDs of assorted sizes, totally 148TB, 132TB usable

  • SlovenianSocketOPEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    External HDDs and shuck the drive out of them. Usually 25% cheaper than internal drives

        • supMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Thank you for sharing! Wish there was a Canadian version too

      • lightrushEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Well the external ones are often slower, but who gives a shit when you put so many of them into a single storage array.

        I’m using 4 external drives in their external enclosures over USB and the storage array performs pretty great for larger files. It’s even pretty good for random IO but ZFS contributes to that.

        • BardakEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I’ve been thinkg of getting a refebushed 1 litre office PC and a couple external HDDs to build a basic starter NAS for cheap.