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submitted 5 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] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

40 drives ? Why that is a huge amount of power , what is your space target

RAID 1 ? With 40 drives ? That would be absolutely stupid you want to use RAID 6 or 10 so you don’t waist 50 % of your space with RAID 1. Or some other N+2 disk redundancy.

Have you considered how much power such a large setup will need?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I'll have to watch a video on it later, I assumed having a 1:1 backup was the most efficient backup method possible without compression. I don't plan on utilizing every drive at once, and I don't plan on having more than 20 to start with, but it won't be much more than I already have, so I should be okay to start. I just want to make sure there room for expansion in the future. I don't need all 40 immediately. My UPS will tell me how much power I'm drawing, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

RAID is not a backup, please don’t use RAID as a backup.

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