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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to build a proper server with room for 40+ HDDs to move my media server to and have RAID 1. I know a lot about PCs and software, but when it comes to server hardware I have no clue what I'm doing. How would I go about building a server that has access to 40+ RAID 1'd HDDs?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

40+ disks ?? I crammed a mini server with 7 old HDD's totaling 2 tb and felt I was king of self-hosted! Now I feel small and peasant-like, damn you ;)

I am a bit curios what the average amount of disks/totalsize is for other data hoard.. self hosters in this sub ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I only have 140TB atm, but I plan to expand. I want to backup all my Blu-rays, which will be at least 10 more HDDs. 2TBs used to be a lot. Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I have 300 blu-rays ripped full quality and that only takes 8.28TB. My entire media collection is just over 12TB. I have a friend who has a massively larger library and even he gets by with a NAS. My NAS only has ten disks and I have 84TB of storage. You're over-estimating your needs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ha, wild server :-) Yeah, I suddenly felt really old too ;-) Well I still have TWO whole free usb ports (2.0) on my tiny server, so I'm not upgrading yet !! 🙃

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

140TB that's crazy dude, is all of that just media?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah. Music, movies, and TV.