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SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 week ago
Ok, so if you want to do a bunch of drives in a box:
pcpartpicker.com/…/gigabyte-mw50-sv0-atx-lga2011-…
pcpartpicker.com/…/crucial-bx500-4-tb-25-solid-st…
However, that’s expensive. I would go with spinning disks.
pcpartpicker.com/…/western-digital-wd-blue-4-tb-3…
If you want to bring the cost down more,
pcpartpicker.com/…/asus-prime-b550-plus-ac-hes-at…
You can drive the price down more by buying a used system.
The pile of SSDs will be easiest to stuff into a box.
You will need to get creative with cooling.
flork@lemy.lol 1 week ago
Thank you that’s probably too big for my tastes but I appreciate the insight.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 week ago
The last board suggested with 5 ports would handle 4 drives in raidz2.
This is smaller even. pcpartpicker.com/…/asrock-motherboard-970mpro3
I would prefer having the smaller board with the hba and putting 8-10 smaller drives in raidz3. That would give you 6 TB with three drives for failure to prevent loss.
Outside the drives, the cost would be under $200 for the board and the hba.
If you have an old system with two PCI-e 16 ports, then your cost is about $90 before you start buying drives.
I’m doing similar with a DDR3 system and spinning 1 TB disks. It’s fast enough to serve video streams.