I've been wanting to get a RAID going... I think I may just get another 3TB drive just so that I can get going again. It's about half the cost of an array even with 1TB drives.

The drive bays should be getting plenty of air though. I have good fans pulling and ****ty fans pushing. The good fans are technically radiator fans.

 

pics or shens

 

What kind of PSU are you running? Yeah the 3TB will be the cheaper option out of the gate that's for sure. A nice middle ground in my opinion would be to go with the 3TB internal drive, and then get a NAS with however much storage you want and backup your system to that thing.

Right now I have a NAS at home that holds all my videos since it's a 2TB RAID 1 and I should probably upgrade to a bigger unit with more drives so I can backup my system to it.

#justsysadminthings

 

2 3tb drives in Mirror Raid.
Raid is fun. 2 SSD Raid 0 for OS 2 SSD raid 0 for "D" drive. and a bunch of Mechanical drives for media storage. I need to invest in some large mechanical drives to back up all of the movies and music i have spread across 5 TB's. data loss SUCKS and you bringing this up reminds me i need to get some new drives.

 

RAID 10 or RAID 50 sounds like a nice safety net for that setup.

 

****ty pics are ****ty, but you get the idea.

Corsair AX1200 PSU. I kinda have enough power to run whatever I want.

I want my storage inside the computer...



3TB is just what I happen to have now... Ultimately I want a 4 3TB array for a 9TB black hole of storage.

 

Nas boxes can get expensive. the 2 bay units are not so bad but when you step 4 bays it isn't so cheap. My last Nas box was around 900 new with only two drives but room for 2 more, Manufacturer requested it back after having it for close to two years. My good friend writes reviews for Maximum PC a few websites and another magazine and had given it to me to use/abuse/test and we both had thought they didn't want it back. Moving 4 TB's of movies and music back to the internal HDDs was SOOOOOO much fun!!
You can build your own nas box too. That might be my next step pick up an empty 4 bay nas and fill with drives.

 

False just put everything in the cloud.

Oh I know I am running a few NAS boxes at work and I did all the research and purchasing at least it was cheaper than getting SAN storage. I am hoping to pick up on a 5 bay Synology box when they do a refresh.

 

A 9TB black Hole of storage would be nice. I would do a Nas or a File/home server for that though. I already want to remove all but 1 mech drive from my tower and put them into a nas or file server.

 

I have a bunch of bays in my tower. Might as well load them up with a bunch of drives. And then I just have one box. Not a tower and then a storage box next to it.

IDK, I just have a weird desire to keep everything in one box. That same desire made the water loop... interesting.

 

something something eggs in one basket something something

 

But it's a really cool basket.

 

hahha