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.