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
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External HDDs and shuck the drive out of them. Usually 25% cheaper than internal drives
Really? Used to be the opposite.
Shuck stop is my go-to price tracker for this.
Thank you for sharing! Wish there was a Canadian version too
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.
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.