MrB2891

NAS.

Over the last 24 months I've built 300TB (a mix of 10 and 14TB disks) for $2500 in disks. I could do that right now for $2100. A 18TB LTO9 tape is more expensive than what I'm paying per TB for 14TB disks.

$700 in hardware to build the NAS with 25 bays.

Glacier would cost you $1080/mo in storage fees alone (300,000GB @ $0.0036) not including the $0.09/GB to get any data back out. Deep Glacier is less (by half, for storage), but comes with strings attached.

Don't forget to factor in labor hours of what it's going to cost you to maintain a tape library or a local server in general.

Are you charging clients for long term storage after a project is complete? If not, you should be.

I would sell it. Everything I do is in containers, I have no need for 32/64, nor do I have the need for it to increase my electric bill.

DL360 ≠ DL380

But you've done a nice job of proving my point. You have a system that you have to hack together your drive storage, since it can't accommodate 3.5" drives. You have have a system that has abysmal single thread performance. You have a system that has overall less compute power than a $240 midrange desktop CPU, yes uses over twice the power. You have a system that has no hardware media encoding.

I'll add, I certainly don't trust ILO to report accurate power draw. Measure from the wall. Each of your CPU's pulls over 120w by themselves alone at 100% utilization. So either your weren't pushing them, or your numbers are off. You should have been pulling 300w at a minimum.

Compressing SD DVD's to 265 is a terrible suggestion. 265 should only be used for high def content, ideally 4K media.

White labels aren't "rejected drives" 🤦‍♂️

Are you using the same machine for your media storage?

I would say Unraid. For the home user it's easily the most flexible, has a great hypervisor for VM's as well as an excellent container manager, an absurd amount of 'one click install' community apps, while being GUI based and easy to use and offering features like array expansion on a single disk.

Unraid.

There is no better home server OS imo.

For what you're doing, I would suggest that you're running a home server, not a home lab.

And with your workload, I would take a i3 12100 or a 13500 well before I stepped back in time to now almost decade old processors.

Empirical data; I went from dual 2660v4's to a 12600k (now a 13500) and have better performance in every single metric, while also having the best transcoder for Plex (UHD 770), while saving $30/mo on my electric bill (200kwh/mo for the 2660v4's, 80kwh/mo for the 13500 which is doing more with more disks than the 2660v4's ever did).

Meh. You paid someone to get rid of their ewaste.

With top end processors you're still left with garbage CPU performance, especially single thread performance. 24c/48t of crap 🤷‍♂️ I'm not sure why guys in this group get so excited over cores and threads. Omgmoar! 🙄

For what you'll pay in electric you could have had a brand new machine on a desktop processor that would decimate that machine on 1/4 of the power. (I went from 2660v4's to a 13500, cut my power by now than half and have significantly better performance in every way. Paid for itself in 18 months)

"Linux is best" is uttered by those living in their mother's basement having arm chair arguments online, while fapping to pictures of the girl they had a crush on in 9th grade.

Linux (especially vanilla distros like Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc) in the home lab is for those that hate themselves and like making everything as difficult as possible.

Now that said, while Windows has gotten absurdly better over the years as far as stability goes, it's still not my personal cup of tea for a home server.

For me, Unraid, hands down and not a second guess. While it is Linux based, you need to know exactly nothing about Linux to run it. Which is the best part, never needing to never learn anything about archaic commands of things that you will never need to know in your day to day life.

TrueNAS deserves an honorable mention, but it's best left out of the home server space for a large variety of reasons. Excellent for business where you have business budgets.

I've been buying enterprise class WD HC530's on ebay for $100. 🤷‍♂️

Sandy/Ivy machines aren't worth plugging in to an outlet. Unless your power is free and even then it's questionable. I junk v4 Xeon's at this point.