My computer is running low on space. I have a 500 gigabytes drive and it's down to about 50 free. I only have about $100 or so to spend. What do you think I should get? My friend has two three terabyte and two one terabyte hard drives in his computer. That's an insane amount of space, I don't need that much just something that will last me another year or two. Any suggestions?
As you don't plan to suddenly start collecting a bunch of BD rips or something, the one recommended would be fine. If you want more space, stepping up to larger sizes isn't too expensive but if you aren't a big media collector 1 TB will be plenty.
8 TB is not what I'd call an "insane" amount of space. My server downstairs has 42 TB. Heck, eight wouldn't even hold half of my anime collection, lol.
As you don't plan to suddenly start collecting a bunch of BD rips or something, the one recommended would be fine. If you want more space, stepping up to larger sizes isn't too expensive but if you aren't a big media collector 1 TB will be plenty.
8 TB is not what I'd call an "insane" amount of space. My server downstairs has 42 TB. Heck, eight wouldn't even hold half of my anime collection, lol.
No, I just watch stuff on Hulu and Netflix. 42 terabytes?? You can't be serious. The biggest hard drive is like four terabytes right? That would be over ten of them, how would you even fit them in a case?
I'm using a server chassis with 16 hotswap bays loaded with 3 TB drives. They connect to a SATA backplane that connects via 4 SFF-8087 cables to an Areca ARC-1160ML2 RAID controller. It's RAID6, hence the 42 TB from 16x3 drives. Also, there are single drives larger than 4 TB now. Newegg has 8 TB Seagates for $250. Man. When I first built my file server back in 2007, I used WD10EACS 1 TB drives. They were $280 each back then, ran me about $4500 for 14 TB. Now I could get 112 TB for $4000 with those Seagates lol.
Forty-two isn't really that big even compared to some other enthusiast builds. There is a storage show-off thread over at hardforum, some guys in there have some quite massive setups
As you don't plan to suddenly start collecting a bunch of BD rips or something, the one recommended would be fine. If you want more space, stepping up to larger sizes isn't too expensive but if you aren't a big media collector 1 TB will be plenty.
8 TB is not what I'd call an "insane" amount of space. My server downstairs has 42 TB. Heck, eight wouldn't even hold half of my anime collection, lol.
Is electricity cheap where you are, or are you rich or both? I want to (and sort of need to) migrate my 8tb raid 5 array out of my personal pc and preferrably in to a server but its going to cost too much to run if I use spare parts I have lying around, and too much to build if I want to use brand new efficient components.
Also curious if youre using hardware or software raid. I'm using hardware raid on an lsi controller.
I don't question the amount of storage in total so much as what exactly is stored on/in the storage. What do people do that requires 50TB+ of storage?
In part, my slow internet has probably been my saving grace in terms of not having all that much in the scheme of things.. I have a fair sized library, but that in itself only takes up around 3-4TB with each being a fairly small file (though each is at least 720p). Slow speeds and low data caps, thanks Australia.
Is electricity cheap where you are, or are you rich or both? I want to (and sort of need to) migrate my 8tb raid 5 array out of my personal pc and preferrably in to a server but its going to cost too much to run if I use spare parts I have lying around, and too much to build if I want to use brand new efficient components.
Also curious if youre using hardware or software raid. I'm using hardware raid on an lsi controller.
I certainly wouldn't call myself rich, I'd say comfortable. My electric bill averages $300ish. The file server isn't really to blame though; I have six servers and five pieces of equipment in that rack plus seven other computers around the house. That's more likely why my bill tends to be high, lol.
I don't question the amount of storage in total so much as what exactly is stored on/in the storage. What do people do that requires 50TB+ of storage?
In part, my slow internet has probably been my saving grace in terms of not having all that much in the scheme of things.. I have a fair sized library, but that in itself only takes up around 3-4TB with each being a fairly small file (though each is at least 720p). Slow speeds and low data caps, thanks Australia.
I imagine some of those mega TB builds are probably for bragging rights, like how some people spend a quite bit of money to get hundreds of FPS in games or high synth scores on benchmarks. I was also grabbing all 720p for movies and such when I was on the 14 TB build (my display device at the time was a Sanyo PLV-Z4 projector, which is 720p native) but now that I moved up I've been swapping out for 1080. The version of the 2014 Hercules movie I recently grabbed was like 22 GB lol. Anime is my primary reason for the server though. I found a great service and I was afraid they'd be sued out of existence or something someday so I bought my server initially to be able to mirror them. It was ~9 TB back in 2007 and up to ~17 TB today. After throwing on movies, music, apps, disc images and using it as a backup destination for all my machines it's down to 16 TB free. Probably won't need to upgrade again for another 5+ years. When it comes time again, maybe 6 TB drives will be at the $100 mark lol.
PS, what made that graphic? That's pretty cool looking.
I imagine some of those mega TB builds are probably for bragging rights, like how some people spend a quite bit of money to get hundreds of FPS in games or high synth scores on benchmarks. I was also grabbing all 720p for movies and such when I was on the 14 TB build (my display device at the time was a Sanyo PLV-Z4 projector, which is 720p native) but now that I moved up I've been swapping out for 1080. The version of the 2014 Hercules movie I recently grabbed was like 22 GB lol. Anime is my primary reason for the server though. I found a great service and I was afraid they'd be sued out of existence or something someday so I bought my server initially to be able to mirror them. It was ~9 TB back in 2007 and up to ~17 TB today. After throwing on movies, music, apps, disc images and using it as a backup destination for all my machines it's down to 16 TB free. Probably won't need to upgrade again for another 5+ years. When it comes time again, maybe 6 TB drives will be at the $100 mark lol.
PS, what made that graphic? That's pretty cool looking.
Yeah, I figured some would purely be for show. Funny how people on the internet do that. I too have thought about mirroring certain sites, or at least parts of them (and started to do so on a $3/month DigitalOcean VPS), but gave up after it was evident I was going to run out of space very quickly. I also have a dual Xeon server with 16GB of ECC RAM laying around under my bed somewhere that would be good for hosting various things, but it's pretty much pointless with such a slow connection (3Mbps/0.4Mbps) so I haven't touched it for a year or two.
As for the picture, it's just a screenshot of my Plex movie library. Much easier to have CouchPotato set up wich Plex auto-sorting and filling in the metadata etc than manually organise the entire library. The TV in our lounge has a native Plex client built in, so removes the need for an RPi with XBMC or Chromecase etc attached to the TV.
Somewhat of an admission though haha, my media/plex/download/NAS/whatever server is currently running on Windows 7 Home Premium because I had a license spare, even though I could be using Server 2012 (or 16 I think? Not sure if available) with Dreamspark. Lol.
My computer is running low on space. I have a 500 gigabytes drive and it's down to about 50 free. I only have about $100 or so to spend. What do you think I should get? My friend has two three terabyte and two one terabyte hard drives in his computer. That's an insane amount of space, I don't need that much just something that will last me another year or two. Any suggestions?
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Yeah, what Spark suggested. 1TB will do you for a long while.
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Curse PremiumAs you don't plan to suddenly start collecting a bunch of BD rips or something, the one recommended would be fine. If you want more space, stepping up to larger sizes isn't too expensive but if you aren't a big media collector 1 TB will be plenty.
8 TB is not what I'd call an "insane" amount of space. My server downstairs has 42 TB. Heck, eight wouldn't even hold half of my anime collection, lol.
One terabyte sounds good. I didn't realize it was so cheap.
No, I just watch stuff on Hulu and Netflix. 42 terabytes?? You can't be serious. The biggest hard drive is like four terabytes right? That would be over ten of them, how would you even fit them in a case?
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Curse PremiumI'm using a server chassis with 16 hotswap bays loaded with 3 TB drives. They connect to a SATA backplane that connects via 4 SFF-8087 cables to an Areca ARC-1160ML2 RAID controller. It's RAID6, hence the 42 TB from 16x3 drives. Also, there are single drives larger than 4 TB now. Newegg has 8 TB Seagates for $250. Man. When I first built my file server back in 2007, I used WD10EACS 1 TB drives. They were $280 each back then, ran me about $4500 for 14 TB. Now I could get 112 TB for $4000 with those Seagates lol.
Forty-two isn't really that big even compared to some other enthusiast builds. There is a storage show-off thread over at hardforum, some guys in there have some quite massive setups
Is electricity cheap where you are, or are you rich or both? I want to (and sort of need to) migrate my 8tb raid 5 array out of my personal pc and preferrably in to a server but its going to cost too much to run if I use spare parts I have lying around, and too much to build if I want to use brand new efficient components.
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Retired StaffI don't question the amount of storage in total so much as what exactly is stored on/in the storage. What do people do that requires 50TB+ of storage?
In part, my slow internet has probably been my saving grace in terms of not having all that much in the scheme of things.. I have a fair sized library, but that in itself only takes up around 3-4TB with each being a fairly small file (though each is at least 720p). Slow speeds and low data caps, thanks Australia.
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Curse PremiumI certainly wouldn't call myself rich, I'd say comfortable. My electric bill averages $300ish. The file server isn't really to blame though; I have six servers and five pieces of equipment in that rack plus seven other computers around the house. That's more likely why my bill tends to be high, lol.
I imagine some of those mega TB builds are probably for bragging rights, like how some people spend a quite bit of money to get hundreds of FPS in games or high synth scores on benchmarks. I was also grabbing all 720p for movies and such when I was on the 14 TB build (my display device at the time was a Sanyo PLV-Z4 projector, which is 720p native) but now that I moved up I've been swapping out for 1080. The version of the 2014 Hercules movie I recently grabbed was like 22 GB lol. Anime is my primary reason for the server though. I found a great service and I was afraid they'd be sued out of existence or something someday so I bought my server initially to be able to mirror them. It was ~9 TB back in 2007 and up to ~17 TB today. After throwing on movies, music, apps, disc images and using it as a backup destination for all my machines it's down to 16 TB free. Probably won't need to upgrade again for another 5+ years. When it comes time again, maybe 6 TB drives will be at the $100 mark lol.
PS, what made that graphic? That's pretty cool looking.
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Retired StaffYeah, I figured some would purely be for show. Funny how people on the internet do that. I too have thought about mirroring certain sites, or at least parts of them (and started to do so on a $3/month DigitalOcean VPS), but gave up after it was evident I was going to run out of space very quickly. I also have a dual Xeon server with 16GB of ECC RAM laying around under my bed somewhere that would be good for hosting various things, but it's pretty much pointless with such a slow connection (3Mbps/0.4Mbps) so I haven't touched it for a year or two.
As for the picture, it's just a screenshot of my Plex movie library. Much easier to have CouchPotato set up wich Plex auto-sorting and filling in the metadata etc than manually organise the entire library. The TV in our lounge has a native Plex client built in, so removes the need for an RPi with XBMC or Chromecase etc attached to the TV.
Somewhat of an admission though haha, my media/plex/download/NAS/whatever server is currently running on Windows 7 Home Premium because I had a license spare, even though I could be using Server 2012 (or 16 I think? Not sure if available) with Dreamspark. Lol.
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