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Clony
Apr 30, 2009, 02:09 PM
As title.

Thinking of buying myself the LaCie 4big Quadra 8TB

http://www.lacie.com/imgstore/product_large/4big_3Qtr-Right_NEW_ON.jpg

A eSATA 3Gb/s Interface, and Easy RAID selection:

RAID 0***,
RAID 5,
RAID 5+Spare,
RAID 3,
RAID 3+Spare,
Concatenation,
RAID 10



Would be nice to have their LaCie 32TB 4x4big Quadra Bundle kit :D

http://www.lacie.com/imgstore/product_large/4X4big_bundle.jpg



They also have a 2x4big 16TB bundle kit,

http://www.lacie.com/imgstore/product_large/2X4big_G5.jpg


tecknical
Apr 30, 2009, 02:56 PM
that must cost a lot. not to sound like a jackass or anything but why on earth do you need that much storage?
Clony
Apr 30, 2009, 03:03 PM
that must cost a lot. not to sound like a jackass or anything but why on earth do you need that much storage?

Well, toady's downloads take up alot of space ;)

As well as my own photo and movie projects, pluss years of music and movie collections.
tecknical
Apr 30, 2009, 03:27 PM
Well, toady's downloads take up alot of space ;)

As well as my own photo and movie projects, pluss years of music and movie collections.

haha and i feel like i have a lot of music and videos when they just take up 100GB
ayeying
Apr 30, 2009, 05:06 PM
I have 3TB in RAID for my movies/tv shows and i've only used up 10% of the total space and I thought I have too much lol
fireshot91
Apr 30, 2009, 05:15 PM
I have my NAS box full (2x 1TB drives, expandable to 4TB).

It only sees 1.67TB because of RAID though. So yeah. Its full.
Clony
Apr 30, 2009, 05:24 PM
I have my NAS box full (2x 1TB drives, expandable to 4TB).

It only sees 1.67TB because of RAID though. So yeah. Its full.

Pictures? :o
fireshot91
Apr 30, 2009, 05:27 PM
Ughh, Just ran upstairs (2nd floor) to the basement like 10 times figuring out what was wrong and it not connecting. Now you want me to go back! Ughh. Be right back :)

EDIT: There ya go: First one- NAS
Second one- Router/Printer/UPS Backup/NAS/ (Cabinet thing that's sealed shut contains the wiring for the whole house for Cable/Sat/Phone, and we fit our VoIP and a router that acts as a network switch in there)
Jamesl94
Apr 30, 2009, 05:38 PM
Well, toady's downloads take up alot of space ;)

As well as my own photo and movie projects, pluss years of music and movie collections.


Don't know what porn you are downloading that uses up that much!:eek:
Mr. lax
Apr 30, 2009, 05:48 PM
Don't know what porn you are downloading that uses up that much!:eek:

Its just lots of porn...
kastenbrust
Apr 30, 2009, 05:55 PM
I took my old early 2008 Mac Pro, gutted it, and put 4 250GB SSD's and 8 x 2TB 7200 Drives in there, then connected them using lan to my office switch. Totalling 19TB :) I've filled it up now though, and i dont know what to do! I've heard 500GB blu-ray disks are coming out soon so i might invest in some of those.
Clony
Apr 30, 2009, 05:56 PM
Don't know what porn you are downloading that uses up that much!:eek:

Its just lots of porn...

Hehe, well. My computer isn't 100% work-safe but why the hell will one have thousands og gigs of porn when your really just need 5min of good porn in HD ;)


Ughh, Just ran upstairs (2nd floor) to the basement like 10 times figuring out what was wrong and it not connecting. Now you want me to go back! Ughh. Be right back :)

EDIT: There ya go: First one- NAS
Second one- Router/Printer/UPS Backup/NAS/ (Cabinet thing that's sealed shut contains the wiring for the whole house for Cable/Sat/Phone, and we fit our VoIP and a router that acts as a network switch in there)

Nice, whats its model name?
shfreelance
Apr 30, 2009, 05:57 PM
Its just lots of porn...

He's looking into backing up all the porn on the internet, but has yet to realize with that 32 TB setup, he will ony back up 0.8% of the internet porn.
Clony
Apr 30, 2009, 05:59 PM
He's looking into backing up all the porn on the internet, but has yet to realize with that 32 TB setup, he will ony back up 0.8% of the internet porn.

Is "him", me? hehe :D

Maybe i need something like this if the purpose is to hold backup of all the porn on the internet :P

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/04/nab-apple-2007-1wtmk.jpg
(3/4 Petabytes of storage space, 3 miles of fiber optic cable, 4 M2 Gb networks, 90 Xserves and 40 Xserve RAIDs)


I took my old early 2008 Mac Pro, gutted it, and put 4 250GB SSD's and 8 x 2TB 7200 Drives in there, then connected them using lan to my office switch. Totalling 19TB :) I've filled it up now though, and i dont know what to do! I've heard 500GB blu-ray disks are coming out soon so i might invest in some of those.

Your kidding me!! :eek:
kastenbrust
Apr 30, 2009, 06:16 PM
Your kidding me!! :eek:

haha no, when your programming and debugging it takes up loads of space, i easily fill a few GB's per hour, and it builds quickly. The 2008 Mac Pro was good because the HD's (especially the SSD's) need cooling baaaaadly, so i could use the built in cooling.
TK B$K
Apr 30, 2009, 06:36 PM
Hehe, well. My computer isn't 100% work-safe but why the hell will one have thousands og gigs of porn when your really just need 5min of good porn in HD ;)


LOL@YOU
LASTING 5MINS!
Clony
Apr 30, 2009, 06:40 PM
LOL@YOU
LASTING 5MINS!

Hehe, you got me! :p Also, i can go on comando ;)
DoFoT9
Apr 30, 2009, 06:43 PM
wow... just wow.. if only i had those sorts of storage capacities. i have a bunch of daisychained FD hard drives / USB drives totaling about 4tb haha.
TK B$K
Apr 30, 2009, 06:45 PM
I took my old early 2008 Mac Pro, gutted it, and put 4 250GB SSD's and 8 x 2TB 7200 Drives in there, then connected them using lan to my office switch. Totalling 19TB :) I've filled it up now though, and i dont know what to do! I've heard 500GB blu-ray disks are coming out soon so i might invest in some of those.


dayum. pics of the inside please?!?
DoFoT9
Apr 30, 2009, 06:48 PM
dayum. pics of the inside please?!?

one would sure hope that it is backed up!!
fireshot91
Apr 30, 2009, 06:55 PM
Nice, whats its model name?

It's a Thecus N4100Pro
DR_K13
Apr 30, 2009, 08:14 PM
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4175/mediacardblackberrypictk.jpg






















that and I have iDisk
ghostee
Apr 30, 2009, 09:49 PM
Here is my homebuilt Windows Home Server. Just over 4 TB, and almost full, mostly from videos.

Outside case:
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ghostee1/P1030473.jpg

Inside case:
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ghostee1/P1030475.jpg

Old screenshot from WHS, a few months old. Much less free space now:
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ghostee1/WHSConsole.jpg
jaglad
May 1, 2009, 11:52 AM
I took my old early 2008 Mac Pro, gutted it, and put 4 250GB SSD's and 8 x 2TB 7200 Drives in there, then connected them using lan to my office switch. Totalling 19TB :) I've filled it up now though, and i dont know what to do! I've heard 500GB blu-ray disks are coming out soon so i might invest in some of those.

How come then that is a G5 Powermac case and your sig has no mention of this wonder of storage? :)
polya80
May 1, 2009, 05:24 PM
I took my old early 2008 Mac Pro, gutted it, and put 4 250GB SSD's and 8 x 2TB 7200 Drives in there, then connected them using lan to my office switch. Totalling 19TB :) I've filled it up now though, and i dont know what to do! I've heard 500GB blu-ray disks are coming out soon so i might invest in some of those.

That's a G5 casing???

Doesn't make any financial sense whatsoever to take apart a 2008 Mac Pro to convert it into a harddisk rack.
polya80
May 1, 2009, 05:25 PM
Here is my homebuilt Windows Home Server. Just over 4 TB, and almost full, mostly from videos.



That's innovative. :D
nownot
May 2, 2009, 09:44 AM
Ughh, Just ran upstairs (2nd floor) to the basement like 10 times figuring out what was wrong and it not connecting. Now you want me to go back! Ughh. Be right back :)

EDIT: There ya go: First one- NAS
Second one- Router/Printer/UPS Backup/NAS/ (Cabinet thing that's sealed shut contains the wiring for the whole house for Cable/Sat/Phone, and we fit our VoIP and a router that acts as a network switch in there)


pics of the inside of "the cabinet thing thats sealed"?

kastenbrust: Same, can we get some pics?
fireshot91
May 2, 2009, 09:56 AM
Its just a whole bunch of wires, and a VoIP box and a router hanging by wires, lol. It has the cabling for the whole house for phone/internet/t.v.


And it's screwed shut, I'm not going to open it, it took me forever to fit everything in it. (The wires are huge)
dlegend
May 2, 2009, 10:16 AM
Here is my homebuilt Windows Home Server. Just over 4 TB, and almost full, mostly from videos.

Outside case:
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ghostee1/P1030473.jpg

Inside case:
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ghostee1/P1030475.jpg

Old screenshot from WHS, a few months old. Much less free space now:
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/ghostee1/WHSConsole.jpg

How'd you set that up? I'm looking to do something similar
Benguitar
May 2, 2009, 10:35 AM
As title.

Thinking of buying myself the LaCie 4big Quadra 8TB

http://www.lacie.com/imgstore/product_large/4big_3Qtr-Right_NEW_ON.jpg

Yes. I have been very impressed with LaCie's products and I highly recommend a LaCie Drive.

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/04/nab-apple-2007-1wtmk.jpg
(3/4 Petabytes of storage space, 3 miles of fiber optic cable, 4 M2 Gb networks, 90 Xserves and 40 Xserve RAIDs)

Whoa....... :eek:

Who on earth owns that!? Pixar? Disney? Apple?
shfreelance
May 4, 2009, 08:29 AM
Yes. I have been very impressed with LaCie's products and I highly recommend a LaCie Drive.



Whoa....... :eek:

Who on earth owns that!? Pixar? Disney? Apple?

I do, yep, I only filled up 5 TB, but have plenty of room to grow.
Mr. lax
May 4, 2009, 05:23 PM
I do, yep, I only filled up 5 TB, but have plenty of room to grow.

Joking?
TK B$K
May 4, 2009, 05:29 PM
Joking?

Yes he is, it belongs the Apple when they were at the National Association of Broadcasters conference back in '07.

LOLZORZMUCHOPORNSPACEORZ (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/19/high_quality_photos_of_apple_at_nab_2007.html)
pagansoul
May 7, 2009, 06:19 AM
My MacPro has 1TB x 4 in its bays.
DoFoT9
May 7, 2009, 06:48 AM
1. Hackintosh: 40GB boot drive + 500GB storage WD
2. Time Capsule (backups) 1TB
3. - MacPower single case (on left) 500GB WD for movies
- LaCie DVD burner
- MacPower dual case (on right) 500GB WD (for random things) + 1TB WD (for tv shows and whatnot)
- all connected via FW400 daisy chaining to MBP (need fw card for hack)
4. LaCie USB 250GB hard drive (movie backups)
5. WD USB 1TB hard drive. mainly for current torrents + FCP scratch.

i think i need a better backup scheme haha! i total of 3.7TB, close enough to 4 :p (if i include my MBP 500gb HD that counts then).

i need some sort of RAID, not enough money to afford a gigabit/fw combination external case thing but.
ghostee
May 7, 2009, 08:55 PM
How'd you set that up? I'm looking to do something similar

I re-used an old case and bought the components individually, and purchased an OEM copy of Windows Home Server from Newegg. I chose a Gigabyte motherboard with 6 on-board SATA ports, a 45w AMD single core chip, and 2 gbs of OCZ RAM. Added a cheap Antec power supply (I think it's 380w), bunch of Samsung hard drives, and eventually the converter that puts 3x3.5" drives in 3.5.25" bays. I stole a DVD drive from my other system to install the operating system. The install is really easy, as is set up after it's up and running.

I've added a few things to it, such as running uTorrent and sanzbd as services. I also use Firefly media server to share my music via DAAP, so my server shows up as a shared library in iTunes.

If you do build one, I highly suggest getting a UPS. I had power fluctuations which caused registry corruption on the server, which was a pain to fix.

You can find lots of good advice for building and setup at WeGotServed (http://forum.wegotserved.com).
kastenbrust
May 7, 2009, 09:09 PM
1. Hackintosh: 40GB boot drive + 500GB storage WD
2. Time Capsule (backups) 1TB
3. - MacPower single case (on left) 500GB WD for movies
- LaCie DVD burner
- MacPower dual case (on right) 500GB WD (for random things) + 1TB WD (for tv shows and whatnot)
- all connected via FW400 daisy chaining to MBP (need fw card for hack)
4. LaCie USB 250GB hard drive (movie backups)
5. WD USB 1TB hard drive. mainly for current torrents + FCP scratch.

i think i need a better backup scheme haha! i total of 3.7TB, close enough to 4 :p (if i include my MBP 500gb HD that counts then).

i need some sort of RAID, not enough money to afford a gigabit/fw combination external case thing but.

Thats not a storage solution thats a storage nightmare! :p I'd go insane, you must be pretty organised.
t0mat0
May 7, 2009, 09:15 PM
Quick question - Any word on the 2TB Time Machine?

2x 1TB drives in my PC, 2x 1.5TB externals, and unfortunately, various drives that aren't working - hence the question about Time Machine for the future!

That LaCie blue light is always linked to a failed drive that just clicked and clicked, like an old airplane that couldn't quite get cranked up enough to spin up...
Most people with 4TB or above using RAID/ Drobo?
DR_K13
May 7, 2009, 10:06 PM
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2980/img00029h.jpg

Sold the 2 x 1TB drives inside to a co-worker and dropped in 2 x 2TB
WD green drives set up as RAID1
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4695/tard.gifsooo... would you count it as 4 TB or 2TB? http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4695/tard.gif
DoFoT9
May 7, 2009, 10:18 PM
Thats not a storage solution thats a storage nightmare! :p I'd go insane, you must be pretty organised.

HAHA! it has gotten quite out of hand and to any 'organised' person it would seem rediculous in both terms of usability and backupability (made a new word :) ).

it does get annoying, i wish there was a way to connect them all onto the one computer (might get a fw card and connect into my hackintosh or something) then share the drives over my gb LAN)... actually i might just do that! haha thanks for the idea!