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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca to c/plex@lemmy.ca

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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[-] learning2Draw@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Any recommendations on hdds?

[-] SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

External HDDs and shuck the drive out of them. Usually 25% cheaper than internal drives

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Really? Used to be the opposite.

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago
[-] sup@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing! Wish there was a Canadian version too

[-] lightrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Bardak@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Refurbished Segate Exos drives go for around 13€/TB German-Site For example drive

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