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Western Digital or Seagate
halfelite:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on July 20, 2012, 02:08:07 AM ---
What you initially purchased can be done... i can buy almost the same thing for a lesser price and add 2 Hard Disks of 3TB each... rest everything being the same..
But if i buy i'll buy a better case which has a significantly more number of bays... so that i can keep using it after i upgrade my system
It would roughly cost me $800.
Not bad i'd say.
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Get a cheap 4u case they are huge but hold a lot you can get a 12bay norco for about 80 bucks. if you move up to the 24bay they are a little more around 250$ that is if you want a 4u case
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: halfelite on July 20, 2012, 02:15:55 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dhruv on July 20, 2012, 02:08:07 AM ---
What you initially purchased can be done... i can buy almost the same thing for a lesser price and add 2 Hard Disks of 3TB each... rest everything being the same..
But if i buy i'll buy a better case which has a significantly more number of bays... so that i can keep using it after i upgrade my system
It would roughly cost me $800.
Not bad i'd say.
--- End quote ---
Get a cheap 4u case they are huge but hold a lot you can get a 12bay norco for about 80 bucks. if you move up to the 24bay they are a little more around 250$ that is if you want a 4u case
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12x3=36TB
That would be enough... i suppose :P
i brings down my cost... and i don't think a case matters much in the configuration except for the number of bays.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: halfelite on July 20, 2012, 02:15:01 AM ---Yes, hybrid synology raid is pretty interesting its not like your standard raid5 where you lose a whole drive for redundancy if you use it you can read about it here. http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_Synology_Hybrid_RAID%3F You can run old school raid5 levels on the unit if you like but its back to one drive at least being used for redundancy
But yes it will rebuild and expand anytime you pop a drive out or insert a new one you dont have to flag it or anything. if you had 4 1tb drives in it. you could pop out anyone and replace it with a 3tb drive and it would expand and rebuild to use the full 3tb of the drive will still using the other 3 1tb drives if you ran the hybrid mode. For home use and small business I recommend them highly. If you are a DIY type of person there are cheaper solutions that are not so easily managed. Im sure you have tried to expand and ext3 FS its not easy and not the safest thing either. but ZFS is now nice enough to replace mode home setups unless using hardware raid controllers.
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Damn, that is cool. I'll definitely try this out sometime.
I've been using ext4 on my array. I haven't tried expanding, actually - haven't really had a need to. If I ever build another disk array, I'll probably try ZFS.
--- Quote from: Dhruv on July 20, 2012, 02:27:43 AM ---12x3=36TB
That would be enough... i suppose :P
i brings down my cost... and i don't think a case matters much in the configuration except for the number of bays.
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Those are rackmount server cases... Probably not very reasonable for the average home user. >.>
And if you're going to have any amount of redundancy, which you really should for 12 disks, you won't have anywhere near 36TB. If you RAID 6 it, you'll have 30TB, which is effectively roughly 27.3 TiB.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on July 20, 2012, 04:37:46 AM ---
Those are rackmount server cases... Probably not very reasonable for the average home user. >.>
And if you're going to have any amount of redundancy, which you really should for 12 disks, you won't have anywhere near 36TB. If you RAID 6 it, you'll have 30TB, which is effectively roughly 27.3 TiB.
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Yeah that should be good enough... 6TB for redundancy is okay. I Guess
And it's not like i am going to buy this whole thing right away. The space in my current Disk will probably last 3-4 months more.
So i can save more till then and start off with something small and eventually make it bigger.
That aside... do you have a job?
I don't think you would have spent $1300 if you didn't have one. :P
Freedom Kira:
Yeah, I'm a software engineer working for one of the two big Canadian railway companies (the better one, of course). It's pretty sweet to be able to cover a $1300 purchase with a single two-week check and still have a couple hundred left over, especially when you're only 22 years old. =P
Anyway, this is really off-topic. Better steer back on course before we get locked.
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