Hard Drive Storage Thread

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>Total Capacity
27TB

>Total Used
22TB

>What you use it for?
Backups, movies, TV, music videos, work stuff.

>Specs of hard drives
7x WD Red 6TB drives in RAID6.

>>45340798
>Total Capacity
10.25TB
>Total Used
~6TB
>What you use it for?
Anything and everything
>Specs of hard drives
1x Intel 730 Series 240GB SSD
2x WD Blue 1TB HDD
2x WD Red 4TB HDD (nas)

>>45340837
What's this?

>>45341030
That's a Synology DS2413+ (12 bay NAS).

>Total Capacity
4.5 TB
>Total Used
3.9TB
>What you use it for?
Movies , TV Shows, Music, Pics, Installs ect.
>Specs of hard drives
Toshiba 7200rpm 3TB
Samsung 7200rpm 1,5TB
Kingston Hyper X 3K 120GB SSD (os)

Hey Juden what kind of harddrive should I get? What capacity? I heard WD reds are the thing.

>>45341635
Reds are pretty good. They have a very good warranty and last longer. As for capacity get whatever suits your needs.

>>45341769
I was asking about capacity cause I don't know if there is a significant difference between 2 and 3 terabyte ones.

>>45341855

A terabyte...

>>45341855
Nah, just get whatever's better for your needs.

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>>45341910
>>45341855

>>45341855
>>45341910
>>45341916
>>45341939
shit shit fuck shit piss cunt bitch nigger cunt faggot shit
fuck me
>I don't know if there is a significant difference IN FAILURE RATES between 2 and 3 terabyte ones.
fuck fuck fuck

>>45340798
wasteoftime.jpg

i inherited a NAS i originally built for workplace.
Asus P5BV-C, Celeron, 8 GB ECC DDR2, 3ware 3650SE 8x SATA RAID controller.

what drives do i fill it with? 4x6TB or 8x3TB ?

>>45342251
*3ware 9650

>>45340798
>>Total Capacity
1.08TB
>>Total Used
150GB
>>What you use it for?
Couple movies, music, linux and windows, pictures, and a few games.
>>Specs of hard drives
80GB Maxtor
1TB Hitachi Deskstar

>>45340798
>Total Capacity
4.02 TB

>Total Used
Unknown, estimated 3.4TB

>What do you use it for?
Everyday stuff + music/animu/cold file storage

>specs of HDs

Ct  Brand/Model        Size   Form     Speed  Health
-------------------------------------------------------
1   Samsung 840 EVO    250GB  2.5 SSD  N/A    Excellent
1   HTSG               500GB  2.5 HD   7200   Good
1   Western Digital    500GB  3.5 HD   7200   Poor
1   Seagate            500GB  3.5 HD   7200   Good
2   Samsung Spinpoint  1TB    3.5 HD   7200   Good/OK
2   Toshiba            160GB  2.5 HD   5400   Good

>>45342310
>WD
>poor health
is the drive old?
i always buy WD if its a mech drive
sheeeit
should i buy hitachi instead?

>>45342692
It's an IDE drive I bought back around 2008. Still works fine but from time to time I run into a file that can't be fully read or written (I/O error) which means it's probably on its way out.

IMHO all mech HDs are roughly equal in terms of failure rates; it's all a crapshoot. I'm going to try to squeeze all the use I can out of my current mech drives so I can migrate to full solid state two or three years from now.

>>45342786
>IMHO all mech HDs are roughly equal in terms of failure rates
Wot?

>Equating enterprise drives to consumer filth.

>>45342870
I don't have the spare cash for enterprise drives and if I wanted to drop a bunch of cash on storage, it'd all be on last-gen proven SSDs instead of spinning rust.

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>Total Capacity
10Tb HDD
120Gb SSD
>Total Used
9.5Tb
>What you use it for?
About 6.5Tb is HD Bluray movies + HDTV
About 3Tb for rainbow tables and assorted dictionary lists
>Specs of hard drives
Western Digital Green drives
4x1Tb
3x2Tb
1x120Gb OCZ Vertex3 SSD

Pic related

>Total Capacity
4256gb
>Total Used
~3.5tb
>What you use it for?
os, general media, vidya
>Specs of hard drives
256gb m550
3tb seagate barracuda 7200rpm
1tb seagate goflex

What's the best OS to go with for a NAS?

I'm planning on building a small custom NAS, mini ITX, about 6TB worth of storage (haven't decided on number of drives, depends on SATA slots on motherboard) and a custom case.

What's the best tool to manage an SSD?

I'm looking at bringing lots of disparate storage into one place. Kicking around I've got 8TB in externals, 4TB in internals, and several smaller disks kicking around. Of that total capacity, I'd estimate that around 7-8TB is actually used. I'd like to replace that with something which has some redundancy (so losing a disk doesn't mean losing everything), but is also expandable (so I can throw on an extra and/or bigger disk to get more capacity). What are my options without bankrupting a small country? Ideally I'd be able to build up the array without committing to all the disks up-front.

>>45344472
What do you mean "manage"? Samsung Magician is the best general SSD maintenance software by far if that's what you mean.

>>45344595
Sounds like a standard RAID 5 situation to me. You can also build a NAS if you want.

>>45344595
>Sounds like a standard RAID 5 situation to me.
Nope. AIUI that requires all the disks to be in place up-front and be the same size. As well as not buying the disks up-front, I'd like to not be tied to that disk size.

>>45343418
FreeBSD seems like a natural choice with native ZFS and great networking

>>45342251
I'd say the 3TB drives unless the 6TB are much cheaper per GB or have a longer warranty. On a gut instinct I'd say older models with fewer platters and zany encoding tricks have less moving parts that can break.

four shitty 1.5tb Seagate drives in raid 5. had one die but was able to RMA the drive and rebuild the array. since then its been running strong for over 3.5 years. use it mostly for backups and movies

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12 TB RAID 5 array
2.5TB used
Videos/Music/Games that play well on RAID
4x 4TB WD red drives