Data

256gb SSD in Laptop, 128GB flash drive that I carry around with me all the time with tons of stuff on it, 700GB external for movies that I watch on the go,4TB that I transfer between home and torrent box, onn desktop 256GB SSD, 1TB WD blue, 1 2TB drive on the way. I ultimately want 10TB, but I'm scared of Raid.

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my computer is my server. <100W idle so nothing to worry about.

>>57249813
Oh yeah, and about 10 2GB flash drives that I have distros and shit on

>>57249822
>100W idle

Im sorry what

>desktop
240GB SSD
>laptop
120GB SSD
>UMPC
30GB HDD and a 64GB microSD card, getting upgraded to 120GB SSD
>server
1x1TB HDD
2x1.5TB HDDs
1x4TB HDD
Getting another 4TB HDD soon

>>57249861
>120GB ssd
I'm sorry for you Anon

>>57249893
Why? I could get by with a 16GB SSD

>Laptop
Samsung evo 840 250 GB (SATA)
Generic Samsung 250 GB ssd (M.2)
>Desktop
1 Generic Ass 1 TB drive (can't recall if it's an old samsung Spinpoint drive or if it's a toshiba one)
Kingston 250 GB SSD.
>NAS
4x4 TB Western Digital NAS RED and NAS RED Pro drives ( it's 2 Regular reds and 2 Pro's)
In Synology Raid mode (it's something hybrid raid I don't care enough about my data to know).

Nice thread
Main: 512 GB m.2 950 PRO, 1TB WD Black
Old main: 160 GB system, 2x320 GB all HDD
Netbook: 32GB eMMC, 128GB uSD

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She's still going, no explosions yet.

>>57249844
Can't help it if my 6700K easily uses 50W in idle (screen off, not sleeping). I'd rather keep my main PC on rather than build a separate NAS.

The desktop goes something like this:
>240GB M.2 SSD connected via PCIe as the main boot drive (replacing my 2010 motherboard+CPU combo when Zen hits)
>512GB Samsung 850 EVO as the main data disc
>Cheap 480GB Kingston SSD for the Windows install (used to be a 120 GB one before I came upon a really good deal for the 480 GB)
>Old Crucial BX100 with my OS install from before I got the M.2 SSD as I haven't come up with a new use for it

>>57250214
Oh yeah and the BX100 is a 250GB job

>>57249783
I have a 128gb ssd for OS, two 1TB drives with a large raid0 partition for games, a raid 1 partition for pictures n such, a bunch of free space.

>>57250133
I guess that's not too bad. What GPU?

>>57250037
post specs please

Is RAID worth it guys?

6 2TB drives in RAID 6. 256GB SSD as OS drive. I need to get some more backups going for my "real" data that I want to keep, but internet cap makes it so I can only do them manually.

>>57250385
Worth it for what?
Speed increase? Probably not.
Data security? Definitely not.
RAID is good for one thing, being able to take a disk failure without an interruption to serving the data. If you don't have an SLA to keep, single drive+backups is a better option.

>>57249822
>>57250412
How do you guys afford so much storage? Is there some drive that's half the price of others that I'm missing out on?

>>57250385
raid1 sort of is

Because I'm poor, my desktop has 2 1TB drives, one for Windows and one for Linux. My 240gb SSD is partitioned down the middle to dual boot Windows and Linux.

If I had my way, I'd just make a 5-10tb server to store my shit and run my PC off of a PCIe boot drive and two 500gb SSDs.

>>57250464
I just don't like that it shows up as different disks in Windows. I deal with it on SSD/HDD because I want to manage, but I don't need to see all the drives and what they have on them, managing multiple is painful as fuck.

>>57250471
I heard there are places where you go do stuff for people and they give you money.

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xps drive was from a laptop, its in a usb case
I use it for shadow play recordings

>>57250471
gradually.

I have a ZFS array with 10 3TB drives. I didn't buy them all at once for a thousand dollars, I got them over like three years, two at a time.

>>57250377
old ass 670. still waiting on something decent to upgrade to.

>>57250492
There's spanned volumes but I don't know if they take different sized disks and how they react to a drive failure. You'd have to read up on that.

>>57250496
>spending $1500 on storage

>>57250378
Case: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Server-Chassis-Rackmount-Metal/dp/B0091IZ1ZG?th=1
HHD: 8x 2tb Hitachi Enterprise Hdd ~$37 at microcenter in store only
CPU: 2x Xeon [email protected] - scavenged from dead server
HSF: 2x Intel http://www.ebay.com/itm/272162829812
PSU: 450watt psu that makes funny noises when you move the mouse, free.
Mobo: SuperMicro X7-DCL3 REV 1.1a (dont fucking by the rev 1.1, only 2 ram slots work) http://www.ebay.com/itm/201385625970
Ram: 6x4gb ddr2-5300 ECC http://www.edgetechcorp.com/view/detail/4gb-240-pin-ddr2-pc25300-registered-ecc-ddr2667-cl5-18v-256x4-2-rank&catalog_id/

Cheap ssd for boot drive & Jails

Freenas 10.1

bash-4.4$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 499.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +499.1 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
FA24BAB3-DCB6-4AA7-A6F9-B7719C966270
Unlocked Encrypted

>>57250609
>spending money on things you find useful is bad

>>57250689
>wanting to spend less than that is bad

>>57250662

>PSU: 450watt psu that makes funny noises when you move the mouse, free.

Could be a bad ground; might not be safe to operate.

You're heading "crosstalk" from the mouse's analog signal going into the USB port and being converted to digital signals. What is supposed to happen is that crosstalk should be sent to the ground via the PSU's ground rail.

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>>57250662

I'm almost at half capacity already, but i can throw an additional 6 2tb harddrive into this thing and expand the storage pool later on.

>>57250742
Of course not, but not realizing that your need ≠ others' needs is definitely bad.

While I'm here, whats a cheap drive to load up my desktop with?

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7x3TB in RAID6
and 2 SSDs

>>57250686
pathetic

>>57250824
>3TB
>RAID
Whats it like replacing a drive every week?

>>57250385
Yes
Especially with SSDs that scale well to raid
Raid 1 is essentially an eternal backup drive that you also read from though
Raid 5 needs 3 drives, raid 6 needs 4
Raid 0 is the fastest reads and writes but if one drive fails you're fucked

>>57250857
It's RAID6. I can rebuild in a day. I would have to lose 2 more drives in that timespan to have issues.

Had 750GB, 1.5T, 2TB, 3TB, for at least 6 years, the worse I had was 2 drives and that's because my monitoring was down.

>>57249783
First of all... does ANYBODY actually use SATA Express?

>my setup
2x 500 GB SSD (Samsung 850 EVO) in RAID 0
hourly image-based backup to an external USB3 2TB drive
Works very good so far. I'm adding a used (1yo) 1TB HDD soon just for some random files I don't want to back up

>>57250950
My M2 drive eats my sata express data lanes
Thank god, I don't know what I was ever going to use them for anyways

>>57250950
Why wouldn't you use SATA Express?

>>57250385
RAID 0
Speed improvements at cost of data security
RAID 1
Enhanced data security (one of the drives die, your data is still fine
RAID 10
Just combine RAID 0 and RAID 1

>>57250974
I'm using my SATA express ports as regual SATA ports. Works fine

>>57251001
Because I've never seen a SATA express drive. Furthermore the next logical step after SATA 3 is m.2 nvme

>>57251001
Why would you?
I haven't run out of sata yet

>>57251028
I ran out of sata a long time ago, and I already had to PCI SATA cards so I started using it

>>57250856

> encryption

>>57250950

RAID 0 Isn't.

Its just AID.

>>57249845

> Windows.

KEK

128gb SSD-Hackintosh system drive
240gb SSD-Winshit gaming system drive
1tb HDD-Hackintosh storage drive
1tb HDD-Time machine drive for easy reinstalls in case shit hits the fan
1tb-HDD-Winshit storage drive

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>>57250133

Why "build" a separate NAS?

Two 6TB drives in RAID 1- complete with built in encryption.

>>57251149
Anotherone who just doesn't understand the concept of RAID

>>57251250
Because I also don't feel like paying out the ass for prebuilt NAS systems.

>>57251250
Why buy a prebuilt when you can do it yourself?

>>57251250
one, a NAS with 10+ bays is expensive
two, more control. some NAS boxes use weird on-disk formats. Building my own guarantees that if something dies, I can plug the disks into another machine and be able to read them.
three, it enables me to use the thing as much more than just a NAS.
four, those tiny rounded-corners things are ugly.

>>57249783
>desktop:
ocz vertex 3 120gb
samsung 850 evo 120gb
kingston uv400 120gb
WD black 1tb
>laptop
120gb nvme (rMBP)
>server 1
4x300 gb 15k sas in raid 0
>server 2
4x 72gb 15k sas raid 5
4x 120 gb kingston uv400 raid 5
>server 3
4x 72gb 15k sas raid 0
4x 72gb 10k sas raid 0
joined in raid 10
>NAS
2x 1 tb drives, one backing up server 1 the other my desktop

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going to expand my storage soon.

>desktop
240GB SSD
>laptop
120GB SSD

Planning on buying a 7200rpm 1TB for my desktop.

>>57249783
3 512GB SATA3 SSDs and a 256GB PCI-E SSD.

Bulk storage is a 10TB FreeNAS iSCSI target over 10GbE fiber.

>>57250865
>Raid 1 is essentially an eternal backup drive
Spotted the retard.

>Internal
120gb Crucial M4
500GB WD Caviar Blue
2TB Hitatchi Deathstar

>Laying around
180GB 2.5" drive from a thinkpad
60GB OCZ Vertex SSD that doesnt work
500GB WD Caviar Blue that *might* be dying
250GB WD...something from like 2005
160GB Seagate something I nicked from an idiot
Misc drives in misc computers

I keep meaning to put together a file server but all the misc computers I have are piles of shit and don't load linux correctly

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>>57251166
What a chump, actually running useful programs.

I want a tiered drive system. 128, 256, 500, 1TB, and 2TB. I want it to get slower and slower the farther down that I go. Thoughts?

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How do you even go about buying a server?
Mainly as a NAS but also for various other lightweight services.

>>57253214
Why?

i no longer hook up my not in use drives

not worth the risk

120GB, 250GB, 500GB Samsung 850 series SSDs in my main machine. Coupled with 2x1TB Seagate mechanical discs for work space.

File server has 2x4TB Toshiba X300 drives solely for movies. 2x2TB Seagate and HGST for music.

Thinking of moving the 2 1TB discs in my main machine over to the server solely for pictures, program files, and .ISOs. about to buy a 1TB SSD for work space anyway.

2x4tb in a nas, and 4x1tb in a server for backup. Everything else uses ssds in varying sizes from 128gb to 512gb.

6x3TB RAID6 on my home server, it boots off of a regular SD card. I'll probably expand it to 9x3TB at some point, though once I have all 9 disks that fit in its case I'd rather use ZFS, no fucking clue how I'm going to move all the data over without buying extra HDDs just to have some place to copy it to while I nuke everything and set up ZFS.

>>57254523
the only way to do incremental expansion well with ZFS is to settle for mirror vdevs instead of RAID6.

it's such a goddamn shame that btrfs can't get its shit together, it'd be literally perfect for the home data hoarder.

>>57254565
I'm currently using mdadm with 6 drives, there's room (physically) for 3 more and a total of 9. I've been expanding mdadm, but once the server is at its physical capacity, I'd like to switch to ZFS (RAIDZ2), since I won't be expanding anymore and will just maintain the pool if/when drives fail.

The problem is moving over multiple TBs of data, I don't have anywhere else to store that much shit and the idea of buying another 10TB of storage just to use as a temporary thing isn't very appealing.

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>>57249783
1x 40gb Intel SSD

3x pairs of 2TB Seagate Constellation drives in raid 1

I plan on upgrading to

1x Samsung 850 Pro 1tb

4x pairs of 5tb Toshiba X300 raid 1

>>57254677
>but once the server is at its physical capacity, I'd like to switch to ZFS (RAIDZ2), since I won't be expanding anymore and will just maintain the pool if/when drives fail.
don't lie, anon. two years after you build a nine-drive RAIDZ2 you're gonna want more space. and you'll be stuck buying a whole new machine and/or swapping out a drive, resilvering, and then repeating that shit nine times in a row

>>57254721
Well, maybe, but by that time I'll probably have replaced my current desktop, so if I want more than 21TB I'll probably be able to convert it into a 2nd NAS if need be, or maybe a hybrid NAS/4K HTPC which I was kind of planning on anyway. My current home server draws ~50W at idle, which is most of the time so adding another machine like that isn't all too horrible. I want ZFS for the extra safety against a drive corrupting shit but not outright dying, other than that I've been incredibly happy with my mdadm setup. It's been very easy to expand, fast and well supported in Linux.

Using mirrors with 50% overhead is painful to imagine with a large number of drives, especially if you convert that number into $. Also, if both drives in a mirror fail, your whole pool is fucked, right? With RAID6/RAIDZ2 you can have a 2nd drive fail during the resilvering process and still have your data around.

>>57254831
>Also, if both drives in a mirror fail, your whole pool is fucked, right? With RAID6/RAIDZ2 you can have a 2nd drive fail during the resilvering process and still have your data around.

The thing is that mirrors don't have the same "you can't change the number of drives in a vdev" restriction. If a drive in a mirror is looking shaky, you can add a third drive, resilver onto it, and then remove the shaky drive.

Also resilvering a mirror is really fast compared to resilvering pairity RAID.

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just a bunch of disks I threw into a box I use as my network attached storage. if the size wasn't right it got partitioned into sizes that worked together.

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Autistic.

120 kingdian ssd
1TB WD
2TB WD
4TB Seagate

>>57254982
>If a drive in a mirror is looking shaky, you can add a third drive, resilver onto it, and then remove the shaky drive.
That does sound nice, though you need to be lucky enough to have the drive not shit itself instantly and completely.

>>57249783
I've got 100, 1GB HDDs.

>>57255055
Oh wow.
Just no.

>>57250760
>Tetsu and Gog
Git gud

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>>57251627
How much $ do you make?

>>57255306
Just that much disk space isn't even that expensive.
But having it all in one pool? Better not be a raid.

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Laptop: 256GB SSD (work shit)
Desktop: 512GB SSD (virgin manchild games), 4TB HDD (anime tiddies and reaction images), 6TB HDD (backups)
It is enough for me.

>desktop
500GB SSD
1TB HDD

>laptop
250GB SSD

>NAS
2 x 4TB HDD

>>57251454

>i habe no ideas wat me talking about

this is literally the post. you seen it here first folks

>>57255346
> isn't even that expensive
I'm sorry, what?

Have you seen hdd prices lately? 8TB caviar red=$320 10TB=$550

Sure you can find them on sale here and there and even pick up a shitty quality drive for less but how do you not fork over at least a good $4k?

Do you have it in a raid? I would hate to see the day when 2 drives fail at the same time and you lose all of that 66TB of that 4k hentai.

>>57255346
>Better not be a raid
>>57255553
>Do you have it in a raid? I would hate to see the day when 2 drives fail at the same time and you lose all of that 66TB of that 4k hentai.
Uhhhh sorry, but what? Why wouldn't that guy have it in raid? You both are confused. You use raid when you DON'T want to lose your data. There's enough different types of raid to find one that will work for you.

>>57252930
I like the names of your network shares.

>>57249783
4 terabytes of data on 7 year old drives that would crush me to loose but are completely unbacked up in any way.

>>57255631
I know what raid is. That sentence was actually 2 different parts. However what kind of raid can he have and not pay a shit ton of monmey for it. Raid 10= double the cash, raid 5 or 6=will take an entire year to rebuilt it. Raid 0=no redundancy. What other raid is out there.

I won't ever trust raid 10 again because if that raid controller somehow dies, you are 100% fucked. Best kind of raid is raid 1, just have like 5 of them for each category of porn.

>>57249822
>>57249844
>>57250133
>>57250377
no one noticed this nice chain of dubs?

laptop

64gb ssd (work, music, os) 4 years old at this point 95% healthy after being in another laptop with a faulty charging/battery circuit so it has a much lower than would be expected power cycle to powered on time ratio

64gb usb 2.0 drive (work overflow, i cant seem to get spotify or solidworks to save anything onto this drive.)

work desktop
256gb ssd (games and os)

500gb 2.5inch drive (games and work)

1tb 2.5 inch drive (movies)

1tb 3.5inch external (transporting movies to friends places)

storage desktop

64gb ssd because i didnt have anywhere better to put it and had on os installed

4 x 500gb seagate drives in raid 1 so the chances of losing my work is low (it is also backed up on my father computer in another country)

1 x 1tb wd drive (for movies)

>>57249783
Main: 512GB SSD OS/1TB SSD gaming
Laptop: 256GB SSD
File server: 80GB SSD OS/2x 4TB spinners mirrored

>>57249783
My main PC;
250Gb Samsung SSD 850 Evo
2Tb WD Caviar Black
2 x 300Gb WD VelociRaptor's in RAID 0

>>57250496
>do stuff for people
that sounds a lot of work

So what do you all store?
I've been thinking about getting .flac copy of all 12,000 songs I have but that still isn't a lot of space.

>>57250133
the fuck is wrong with your 6700k?
my 4790k uses like 10-20 watts idle, and like 5 with the screen off.
Then my gtx 970 uses like maybe 20 watts more?
at idle it's almost always below 50 watts idle, and usually like 20-30 with the screen off.

>>57249783
Till now 1TB and 2x 128GB SSD in PC. 128GB SSD in MacBook. And one 1TB Ext Drive.

But the 1TB Drive is like 6 years old and i want to upgrade to a real NAS (for better backups... lost data is a meltdown in this world and dont want to use Google Drive or Dropbox). So i am considering a HP Server and a HGST 3TB Drive.

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Just deleted ~150 Anime series that I'm never going to watch again.
I know ill never want to watch half this crap again, but it still hurts.

Boot is a 500 EVO, all the others are a mix of 1TB and 2TB WD Green and Blacks.

I want to get me a 2TB hdd to retire my 2 320, 6+ yo drives, recommendations?

>>57259618
WD or HGST or literally whatever. the failure rates are sufficiently low that even some seagate drives should be fine. just don't jostle your case while running it in a 95 degree space or something.

>>57259444
from the wall or reported from the OS? PSU's are less than 80% efficient at un-ideal wattage. im taking all power draw directly from my UPS.

>laptop
500GB SSD Samsung 950 Pro M2
1TB External HDD WD Elements
>desktop
240GB SSD Samsung 840 Evo
2TB HDD WD Black
3TB External HDD Seagate Expansion (still alive after 2 years)
>server
120GB SSD Kingston v300 (it's shit)
2x 2TB HDD WD Red


1TB External HDD Some WD HDD

Pleb shit. Just a 120GB SSD (for OS and programs) and a 1TB HDD (for all my files.) The HDD isn't even half full.

>>57256030
Then back em up.

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>>57256546
>Have a friend who tries to convince me that offloading to a RAID controller is a huge benefit.
>Huge cost involved in any controller worth it's salt.
>Fear that it could be a SPOF and crash all my data
I'll stick with ZFS so I can safely perform RAID 5/6 & 10

>desktop
250GB SSD for OS, 3TB as storage, 2x1TB in Raid 0 for games, 1TB for experimenting with hackintosh, 4TB external for backup/misc shit
>laptop
250GB SSD for OS, 120GB SSD for VMs, 1TB Storage
>server
8GB flash drive for ESXi, 250GB SSD for VMs, 2x2TB and 2x3TB pooled with mergerfs+snapraid for storage
>router
1TB external for VM backups

I've got a handful of USBs and other external drives laying around too

>>57256546
That was one of the stupidest things i have read today. Good job sir you are an idiot

>>57253802
No real idea, just sounds cool.

>>57253853
What risk?

>>57255058
Why the fuck do you have a 750w psu for a computer that has a tiny gpu?

I bet you dont even draw 400w under full load

>>57259610
Hey that's a cool way to name your drives

I'm gonna steal it

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>>57249783
- 128Gb SSD for system. I probably should have configure it as fusion drive, but it's too late now.
- 3Tb HDD as main drive
- 4x500Gb JBOD for TimeMachine
- 1Tb on VPS via AFP. Used as second TimeMachine target.

So I needed some more storage

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4UM3102206

and those are super cheap. Am I missing something on those?

 ~  zpool status 
  pool: store
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 58h40m with 0 errors on Tue Oct 18 04:57:08 2016
config:

        NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        store                                         ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1-0                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1-1                                    ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0
            ata-WDC_WD30EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

Started out with one raidz1 vdev, adding the second to the same pool wasn't the best idea.
Just got the cables for my second LSI2008 HBM, so I can now add a second raidz2 pool of maybe 10 x 6 TB drives and migrate the data to that.

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240GB SSD Boot Drive
2TB Main Storage Drive
2TB External Media Storage Drive
750GB External Back Up Drive

Thinking of getting a 5TB External to replace the 750GB one for back up purposes.

>>57261277
Modern software RAID, unless you're using a shitty OS, is always better.
The CPU will never be your bottleneck, and in fact a cheap hardware RAID card could be. Not only RAID cards are more expensive, but could lead to a less reliable and slower system.

>>57261277
>>57265093
Whats with raid cards. My motherboard does raid, is it a meme?