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Picture of storage solutions and your specs. (4Tb and up)

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Clony

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As title.

Thinking of buying myself the LaCie 4big Quadra 8TB

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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 😀

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They also have a 2x4big 16TB bundle kit,

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that must cost a lot. not to sound like a jackass or anything but why on earth do you need that much storage?
 
tecknical said:
that must cost a lot. not to sound like a jackass or anything but why on earth do you need that much storage?
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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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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)
 

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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.
 

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Jamesl94 said:
Don't know what porn you are downloading that uses up that much!😱
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Mr. lax said:
Its just lots of porn...
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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 😉


fireshot91 said:
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)
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Nice, whats its model name?
 
shfreelance said:
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.
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Is "him", me? hehe 😀

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

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(3/4 Petabytes of storage space, 3 miles of fiber optic cable, 4 M2 Gb networks, 90 Xserves and 40 Xserve RAIDs)


kastenbrust said:
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.
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Your kidding me!! 😱
 
Clony said:
Your kidding me!! 😱
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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.
 
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.
 
kastenbrust said:
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.
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dayum. pics of the inside please?!?
 
Here is my homebuilt Windows Home Server. Just over 4 TB, and almost full, mostly from videos.

Outside case:
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Inside case:
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Old screenshot from WHS, a few months old. Much less free space now:
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kastenbrust said:
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.
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How come then that is a G5 Powermac case and your sig has no mention of this wonder of storage? 🙂
 
kastenbrust said:
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.
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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.
 
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