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Big disk win, what do you think? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by maxgrav@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Just picked up 17 x 1-TB HDDs at $120 total on craigslist. All WD, Seagate, and Toshiba.

What do we think?

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[-] ElevenNotes@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

From a price point of view that was not a good deal in terms of $/TB, but, if you need a lot of throughput you can easily create a 17 disk RAID6 array, but this requires an LFF storage system that can handle these many drives. Do you have such a system already or what was the idea to buy this many 1TB drives? Can you elaborate more?

[-] maxgrav@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I don't plan to run them all simultaneously. I'll have 3 data sets:

  1. My main storage 1 TB, with a syncing copy of the whole TB on another machine and 1 offline copy updated perhaps every few months.

  2. My family photos and videos, allocating 1 TB to the photographer of the family, with a synced copy attached to a digital photo frame.

  3. My home video media server hosted on a cloud storage app I wrote myself. I probably won't put in any redundancy for that set and will focus on size.

I haven't learned RAID yet, but will sometime.

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