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

  • lightrushEnglish
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    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
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      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.