/Storage/ thread >How much space do you have? >What brands

7.2TB
Each of my drives is a different brand:
>Crucial 1.1TB SSD
>Seagate 1TB HDD
>WD 1TB external HDD
>Kingston 128GB SSD
>Samsung 4TB external HDD

[desktop]
128GB Plextor SSD
2x2TB HGST HDDs

[laptop]
64GB mSATA SSD, forgot the brand
500GB 2.5'' WD HDD

[server]
basically an old laptop
16GB Samsung SD card
1TB internal 2.5'' Seagate HDD
2TB external Samsung HDD

also random old drives scattered around, probably totaling less than 2TB

1 Samsung 850 250GB SSD
2 WD Black 1TB HDDs

What's the best way to set up a raid 5 or raid 6 array?


I've been looking at external enclosures, but nothing this side of $250 seems to support it.

>>61597407
500gb sad
1tb HDD

Do i need a bigger SSD for editing?
The HDD seems to shit the beed when doing playback shit in Premiere.

23GB local 10TB server. Various offline drives from 150gb-1tb

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>>61597407

i have a crippling 24bit audio addiction i just passed 2tb the other day

im poor and running out of space

hold me /g/.....

Poorfag here, currently have 2 Seagate Barracuda 500gb HDD

should I get a 120gb ssd or a 16gb intel optane?

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Why haven't you bought these $160 Western Digital Reds yet?

>>61598477
>24bit audio
Literally placebo for listening, enjoy your wasted space.
https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

>inb4 b-but my magic ears can hear the difference!

redpill me on raid10 vs raidz2

>>61598542

need 24 bit headroom for running declick and denoise algo.....my rips are the quietest

>>61598542
i have collected 2tb and now i am going to stop because of that single xiph.org link you posted. thank you !

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>>61598510
I would opt for an SSD because you can't decide what gets stored on Optane. The speed difference is barely noticeable I guess.

>>61597407
12TB currently, array is in the process of expanding to 21TB though since I added more drives. Should be done in 15-16h or something like that.

>>61597757
ZFS is probably the best, but it's more demanding in terms of resource requirements. Linux software RAID (md/mdadm) is pretty solid, easy and good too, but compared to ZFS it has the disadvantage of not detecting bit rot in any array config. You can easily expand an existing md array too even while it's online, ZFS is a bit more restricted in that regard if you can't tear everything down and start from scratch.

>>61597407
24TB total:
>15TB (6, 6, and 3) rip of Grateful Dead and related music from archive.org
>3TB anime archive of everything by Gainax, KyoAni, P.A. Works, and Shaft
>3TB pictures and music and computer things from my entire life
>3TB backup of the above
all WD Reds, they've served me well but I wouldn't claim to have enough experience to swear by anything
would love to someday have a RAID 5/6 setup

2x8 TB RAID1 NAS WD Reds (thanks /g/)
2x3 TB memegate and hitachi in desktop (+500 GB worth of SSDs)
2x2 TB Reds unaccounted for that were where the 8s are now (suggestions, future projects?)
3 TB stagnant external drive
1 TB portable external
The hitachi is loud but very good
WD red forever
>but how much porn?
About 3 TB

>>61597722
holy shit i have the identical set up, except i have the 840

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just a samsung 1TB 960 evo

m.2's cleanup a lot of space

>>61598759
Wouldn't be too shocked that looks like an ol reddit build

>>61598790
except none of my build ideas came from reddit when i built in 2014 i didn't trust drives over 1tb, and still don't.

>>61598683
>ZFS is probably the best, but it's more demanding in terms of resource requirements.
If you enable dedup. Otherwise, not so much.

I have like 20 250GB hard drives lying around from work and two 1TB drives I actually use in my computer.

>>61597407
>How much space do you have?
about 8tb

>What brands do you swear by/use?
Seagate for hdds
Samsung for ssds

>>61598516
I hope that guy realizes all the electricity he's using by buying 100x HDD's.

5400RPM WD RED = 3.5 watts x 100 HDD's = 350W x 24hrs = 8,400w per day.
8400w/1000 = 8.4kWh per day
252 kwH per month
252 kWh per month x 0.12 cent(average you pay in electricity) = $30.24 per month

so, that's an extra $30 on his electric bill every month, or $360 every year

>>61599044
>252 x 0.12cents
>$30.24
It's obvious what you meant, but still...
Shit like this destroys spaceships man.

Best external hard drive (~2TB)?
Looking for long last, using it as a movie library

>>61598894
I actually haven't looked into ZFS recently, how much RAM do you need nowadays for each 1TB of storage without dedup? There's a lot of conflicting shit out there.

>>61599044
I can only dream of electricity this cheap (UK bong here).

>>61599116
oh wow i fucked that up

extra $7.36 per month
extra $88.36 per year

>>61599126
>2tb
>movie library
Enjoy your yifi rips from 2011.

>>61597407
Laptop
60GB HDD
64GB SD card

Desktop
230GB HDD

>>61599128
I wouldn't worry about it if you have 8GB or more.

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31TB, but it's not a 'proper' setup.

It's just a bunch of disks inside an enclosure. No redundancy, no mirroring. no backup.

I know, it's bad, but I'm still saving up. I'm going to need about $2000 to pull this off.

Here's what my master plan is.

RAID 10
66x HDD's @ 1TB = 33TB of usable storage.
66x read and 33x write speed gain
Pic-related bay

HOWEVER
Since I'm transferring my entire 31TB into the raid, this means I no longer need the JBOD(Unless I wanted to use it as a backup), so I'll have an additional 31TB of storage, just not raid'd.

So in total, 64TB of storage.

>>61599173
What? My movie files are like 10gb on average. I'm not wasting space with 50gb files for unnoticeable differences. Go back to /ptg/.

>>61599173
>>61599221
Also, not all of us can have our parents afford 1gb down speeds.

>>61599221
>unnoticeable differences
Unnoticeable on a tiny 24inch monitor, yes that's obvious.

But when you're playing them on a 70+ inch 4k TV, that 50GB movie makes a difference.

>>61599240
Luckily I don't have a 70+ inch 4k TV.

>>61599236
>mfw i live with my parents
>but have good job
>can afford fiber, $4k desktop setup and other expensive things since i dont have my own place
>they dont care since they benefit
>they're going to be dead in 10 years so the house will be mine anyway

that's how you win

>>61599212
Don't bother with RAID. Use JBOD using FlexRAID. It's cheap and you are still able to rebuild your data should a disk fail.

http://www.flexraid.com/

>>61597407
32TB in raid0 accross 4x 8TB HDs. No fucks given.

>>61599212
Actually this may not be possible.

I use VeraCrypt to encrypt all my drives. If I encrypt the entire RAID and 1 drive dies, what happens?

>>61599283
>t's cheap and you are still able to rebuild your data should a disk fail.
Thanks I didn't know about this.
However I would like to have that read/write speed boost from distributing the load across multiple disks. Is this capable of that?

>>61599301
>Is this capable of that?
lolno.

>>61599259
Same plan, only my `job' is working for my father which allows me to just leave and travel whenever for however long.

>>61599301
It builds bit for bit so should work. You will have the same issue with any RAID setup. Unless you have a 10gb network system I doubt you would notice any speed difference. Dunno much about how you are connected though.

Corsair 275GB SSD
WD Blue 1TB
WD Green 4TB
WD Elements 1TB external
Samsung 128GB USB

I think I have more then enough for now.

>>61597407
Seagate barra 1tb

WD Blue 250gb

No bully plz

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https://pcpartpicker.com/product/n2JwrH/toshiba-internal-hard-drive-dt01aca300
or
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B013HNYV42
Which one is better?

>>61599480
3TB drives are shit and more prone to failure. 4TB is usually more reliable. I would get a 4TB Toshiba myself as they are usually cheaper than other brands.

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>>61599322
ah, well I still may check it out since as >>61599344 said, I'm never going to come close to maxing it out.

>>61599344
>It builds bit for bit so should work
Good, I was getting worried that full Raid encryption wouldn't be possible.

I wish I could just upload it all to the cloud, but I highly doubt any free, fast service exists that'll let me drop 31TB

>>61598510
ssd for sure. you can't do shit with 16gb
if you need speedz just buy more ram and setup ramdisk

>>61599523
Thank you

>>61599543
>you can't do shit with 16gb
they can, but it'll be hell.

I had a 32GB SSD once, and it was hell trying to keep my OS partition above 10GB free space. Pretty much had to micro manage everything installed on it.

>>61599526
Ask about the encryption aspect on their forums. They are a friendly lot.

>>61599523
>3TB drives are shit and more prone to failure. 4TB is usually more reliable.
Baseless internet assertions made for no discernible reason for 400.

>>61597407
got some sanshit 512gb m.2 for os
1tb toshiba ssd for scrath disck for photos/videos

two 10tb hgst for media movies/music and 10tb for just mass storage for photography

just bought some 8tb western digital bullshit external for backup or whatever

>>61599608
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/01/why-you-should-buy-4-tb-hard-drives-and-skip-the-3-tb-ones/

captcha = gentner drive

>>61599608
>>61599643
'Another interesting finding is that only three drives managed to go the entire year without failing. They include 8TB drives from HGST (HUH728080ALE600) and Seagate (ST8000NM0055) and a 4TB drive from Toshiba (MD04ABA400V).'

2017 report

http://www.pcgamer.com/backblaze-hard-drive-reliability-report-finds-hgst-drives-least-likely-to-fail/

>hgst
>owned by wd
>crazy helium technology
>lower annual failure rates
>but somehow cheaper
what is this magic?

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1Tb 850 pro
2Tb WD blue
4Tb WD red

>>61597407
>What's the best way to set up a raid 5 or raid 6 array?
>
>
>I've been looking at external enclosures, but nothing this side of $250 seems to support it.

DESU, after years and thousands of dollars in complicated RAID shit for home use, this little Champ has been a bug surprise for cheap. I did 4 HGST enterprise-class 3 TB drives and bang. Just shy of 9 TB usable. Small, cute and quiet.

Mediasonic HFR2-SU3S2 PRORAID 4 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Enclosure - USB 3.0 & eSATA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YFHEAC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_05QEzb5ZEDRBP

For cold storage what's the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R?

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>>61600663
Both are pointless in the current year.

>>61600690
I know but I have a stack of old DVD+R's lying around that I never used and wanted to know if they were worth using.

>>61597637
>also random old drives scattered around, probably totaling less than
same

>>61600698
>cold storage

Kill yourself

Has anyone here recorded from their PC to an external HDD and had it work well before?

I have an external 2tb toshiba canvio basic HDD but when I try to record to it (using shadowplay or OBS) it just lags a lot and has a lot of problems making it basically unusable, also it falls asleep a lot if it's not in action which isn't a bad thing but it sometimes cuts out even just listening to music because the song is long and doesn't load anything for like 7 minutes

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>>61599738
They sure are fucking loud, though.

>>61599283
>flexraid

or just actual software like ceph.

>>61597407
1x Samsung Evo 250gb
1x WD Black 2tb
1x WD Blue 6tb

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>>61598557
10 (stripe of mirrors) has more IOPS, it'll scrub/resilver a lot faster. Z2 is basically RAID 6. Slightly better redundancy - any two drives can die, instead of mirrors where any one drive can die, but then you'd better hope the second to die isn't the other side of that one mirror. Higher space efficiency but slower.

>>61599128
Depends on workload. Database servers need big piles of RAM. Your personal anime storage doesn't. Home data hoarders are fine with normal amounts of memory.

>>61600698
Optical discs are worth using because they're a cheap way of doing off-site backup. Burn disc, leave it at work or a friend's house. You can leave discs all over for cheap, whereas external HDDs are expensive enough to make you think twice about doing that. Use parchive and/or DVDisaster to protect against bit rot, and encrypt your shit.

Anyone using M-Disc?

>>61599116
>Shit like this destroys spaceships man.

This needs to be a banner here on /g/.

>>61597407

>Using hardware raid in 2017.

Use ZFS or even storage spaces in Win10 (reFS) if you want to. They're all faster and more resilient than raid for small to medium setups(< 10 HDDs).

>>61601608
So is hardware raid for small arrays obsolete?
I was hoping to get a small raid enclosue to act as a repository for all my older/less used files.

>>61601865
"hardware raid" is just software raid, and I trust linux and *bsd's implementations more than cheap microcontrollers

>>61597407
what are good large capacity 2.5" drives? mainly looking for storage i can put in my ultrabay and swap out

>>61597407
128GB Liteon SSD
1TB WD Blue

>1tb WD black
>1tb WD blue
>500gb from a gateway pc
>1tb toshiba external
>120gb laptop hdd
Gonna get a 2tb soon so that I can pirate more entertainment that I will never get around to watching or playing

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If i only have a choice of 2TB wd blue and 2TB wd red, which one is better? And 2TB wd blue is basically a rebrand of wd green right?

>>61601217
Sleep tite storage man

>>61597407
Desktop:
1tb sandisk ssd.
2tb wd hdd
250gb toshiba hdd
120gb kingston ssd.

macbook:
x2 2tb hybrid drives. raid 0

>4TB HGST drive
>2x 1.5TB Toshiba drives
>1x 1TB Toshiba drive
>1x 1TB WD drive

>brands I swear by
HGST
>RAID
Not yet but I'm setting up a RAID10 array with four 4TB HGST drives

>>61602302
I've also got a 160 GB WD HDD for the root drive in my server a 240GB Kingston SSD in my desktop, a 120GB FastDisk SSD in my laptop, and a something Wave SSD in my iPod

>>61601217
Sleep tite storage man

>>61602142
If you don't brew beer and don't give good head, I suppose you can earn your keep by running the local moviehouse after the apocalypse.

250gb Samsung 850 evo
1tb WD
2tb Seagate Barracuda

Ordered an external 1tb HDD from Seagate yesterday.

>>61602359
And 1TB of 64GB PNY flash drives

>>61602154
>wd blue is basically a rebrand of wd green right?
only if it's less than 7200rpm

I am currently using a 4 year old 2tb Seagate Barracuda drive as my encrypted porn storage.

How long until all my years of porn is RIP in peace?

>>61599738
The backblaze stats on hgst are from their older drive's. Nothing is known about these newer helium models. Its likely they are rebranded WD models now since the clause in the hgst buyout that stated hgst had to remain its own independent company for a time has expired.

4TB NAS with a 4TB external backup
6~TB in my main tower
3TB in google drive and onedrive

>>61602386
Yeah all wd blues above 1tb is 5400, but i still wonder if i should get reds instead.

How the FUCK do I get more sata ports on my computer?

>>61603229
Get a pcie sata card

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>>61597407
3x3tb drives otw

- chink 120gb - system
- 1TB 2.5 Hitachi - data/gayman
- external 500MB Hitachi - backup

Will get another 120Gb chink SSD because gayman (BF4) loading times are horrible on mech drive.

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>>61597407

I accidently fucked up my PC and had to do a clean reinstall so need to go back to hoard mode. Surprisingly my TV and Movies stash is only 250GB or so.

This thread seems lika good place to ask. Are 2.5" hard drives any good? Going to switch to mitx soon and the case i want cant fit the amount of 3.5" hdds i have so i need to downsize, preferably without breaking the bank (1tb ssds are still too expensive)

>>61603401

Thanks for responding. Which one to buy though? I don't need a RAID card since i'm a drivepool shitter

I saw a plain 10 sata port card but apparently it only uses 2 port multipliers or whatever they're called and some customer reviews said that it worked fine for JBOD but not for drive pooling

>>61603575
It's just my general knowledge about port expansion, i never bought nor used one. Maybe someone here knows more.

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>>61597407
>How much space do you have?

>>61602691
HGST has 45,000 employees. Bit unrealistic to think WD can just replace their output overnight by putting different stickers on their own HDs.

>>61597407
Desktop:
256GB NVMe SSD - Samsung
120GB SSD - Samsung
2TB HDD - Seagate

Laptop
240GB SSD - OCZ
750GB HDD - Apple/Hitachi

>>61599044
he just spent $16000 on hard drives do you think he gives a shit about $30 a month

>>61597407
>>How much space do you have?
Just under 10TB, I'm still a storagelet.
>>What brands do you swear by/use?
Samsung SSD and WD HDDs.
Would swear by Samsung HDDs too, but they stopped making them. I still have an old Spinpoint in service that has over 9 years of power on time, though.

>>61597407
Desktop
500GB PCI SSD

Laptop
250GB PCI SSD

Server
2x3TB WD Red in RAID1 configuration

[desktop]
Samsung 840 120 GB
WD green 1TB

[laptop]
Samsung 850 pro 256 GB
(i'm planning to buy a 960 250 GB)

[other]
ADATA 2 TB external drive
WD my passport 300 GB
2 random internal drives, 1 TB each.

im half impressed at /g/ for once, maybe you guys aren't all fucking summerfags after all

3x2tb wd blue's here; they're getting pretty full now though, expecting to buy more around christmas

>>61598374
Set the premiere swap drive (I think that's what it's called) to the SSD

About 5TB total, no RAID because I'm lazy and poor

Desktop
64GB Samsung SSD
2TB WD Green
1TB Seagate Barracuda

Laptop
320GB Hitachi HDD

Misc
250GB WD HDD salvaged from somewhere
1TB WD external
250GB Sandisk SSD

PC has the following
250gb Samsung EVO M.2 with the OS on
128gb SSD currently sat with windows on too, as this was a recent upgrade to the M.2.
3TB HDD Kingston I think or something
1TB HDD same one as the 3TB just different size.

I do have a question about M.2 drives though, I see reports of people claiming the M.2 gets them from shut down to ready to go in 4 secs on boot however I'm only seeing marginal speed improvements, I have the Samsung software installed it is shows all is ok, so wondered if anyone had any idea on what's going on?

3x2TB (WD Green) + 3x3TB (WD Red) + 2x256GB SSDs = ~15.5TB total

Ordered a WD My Book Duo a while back for cheap 2x8TB WD Reds, gonna replace two of the Greens with them when they arrive, so that'll bump things up to 27.5TB.

I've generally had a decent experience with WD, though I'm never buying greens again after running into annoying parking issues with some of them.

just bought 3x6TB Seagate Ironwolf. had to return 2 because they don't work. waiting on replacements
was planning on supplementing my 3x3TB WD Reds

8.5tb

>2tb wd green
>2tb wd black
>4tb Seagate ext drive
>2x250gb sandisk extreme ssds in raid 0

>>61606464
In what way did the Ironwolf disks not work? I had one randomly restart on me.

Seagate Barracuda 500 gb
Seagate External Hard Drive 2tb that I broke after two times got fell accidentally.
Kingston Solid State Drive 250 gb

i need a recommendation for new a external hard drive /g/ for 1tb so that i can be more careful of my things and data.

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Always trust Western Digital....had countless of their drives, and none has ever failed me
Only ever had three Seagates (these two plus an external), but no failures there either

NEVER buy Hitachi

Also, there's not nearly enough Hard Drive Theme Naming going on in this thread

>hurr durr I want privacy
>but here you go, my unique system identifier
What did they mean by this?

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>>61606854
>NEVER buy Hitachi

this anon is a retard.

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At what storage size should I start worrying about unrecoverable read errors? I've become uneasy after learning about it but it's not like I have enough money to go for a raid setup right now and to add to that I haven't even gotten a desktop yet. Right now I have a capacity of 10TB spread across 5 WD elements external HDDs.

>>61607035
I have server with hw raid 1 for system 2x74gb and 4x2tb in btrfs raid5 with the same hitachi drives

>>61601301

I have my copy of Windows 7 on an M-Disc.

>>61607068
they're really good drives. i paid 37 at microcenter for them. I'm up to 11 of them now, gonna fill my FreeNAS box with 16 of them soon.

>>61606955

This board doesn't care about OPSEC.

>>61607095
in future I'm just planning to buy diskshelf and add mote 2tb drives for speed

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>>61598477
>24-bit
HAHAHAHA

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820250081

SSD noob here, are these things REALLY that much faster than platter drives? Thinking about using this as my C: on my next build if it'll get a little cheaper

>>61607167
>are faster drives faster than the slower ones?

In my main machine I have 20.75TB.
750gb is SSD space, the other 20TB is HDDs. 1TB, 2TB, 3x4TB, 5TB.

In my 2ndary machine I've got another 16.5TB (500GB SSD, 2x1TB 5x2TB, 4TB).

I have another ~6-8TB spread across laptops and another desktop.

>>61599212
You know raid speeds decrease a lot after 10 disks right?
I mean you don't gain much or any at all plus you need a hell of a controller to deal with this much disks

Who SnapRAID here?

>>61597407
8.2TB RAID
Currently using Seagate Barracudas. Not really married to any given brand, I tend to just go for the most cost effective reputable drives at the time.
I'm planning to upgrade, but haven't decided which drives and in what configuration yet.

>>61597407
1 Samsung Evo 850 500 GB SSD
2 WD Blue 1 TB HDD in RAID 1

I've had too many drives fail on me that I lose data between my monthly backups so I mirrored my data drives. I may eventually break the mirror to use 2TB if I ever need the space, but I don't have a ridiculous amount of stuff like some people on /g/

>>61607255
ZFS bro.

Dont pay $1000 for a raid controller, pay $1000 for HDD's and RAM.

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Torrent server is an old emachine laptop that's probably going to die soon. Speccing out a NAS right now,
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XWC73F
Hoping to have atleast half of that as a backup for the other half.

>>61607167
It makes booting into windows 3-5x faster. If that makes sense.

Count the seconds from when the computer starts up or rather right after the bios screen.

If the HDD takes ~30 seconds to fully start up (and make the windows usable without lag), then the SSD will do it in ~10 seconds.

>>61607344
Though it should be noted NvMe m.2 drives add ~5+ seconds to your POST time since you're going through the extra step of initializing a PCIe boot device.

Not a huge concern but people tend to gloss over that

>>61606131
Raid is cheap.
I'm using a raid 0 3 hdd Seagate.
When I installed a crucial NVM. I also had one cheapo Kingston ssd.
When I installed the NVM I just run atto for lulz.
It was a shock to realize that my raid was actually faster than the cheapo Kingston.
300mb vs 550mb.

Random was similar.
NVM is strong 2200mb/s seq read.

I only own 2TB drives

Redpill me on Seagate and WD 4TB+ drives, are they still failure prone compared to a 1TB?

>>61601217
Sleep tite storage man

>>61607403
only had my WD 4TB drive for a few months now, but it's been fine so far

>>61606197
>>61606197
>>61606197
Anyone able to help?
>>61606197
>>61606197
>>61606197

What are you all even storing on that many drives?

PC
- M2 SSD 256 GB

Laptop
- M2 SSD 128 GB

Backup
- 2.5" SSD 256 GB
- 2.5" HDD 256 GB (to be replaced with 1TB)
- 2.5" HDD 512 GB (to be replaced with 1TB)

>>61607473
Porn, DUH
*eye roll*

>>61607473
I've got pretty much every movie, tv show, and anime ive watched over the past ~5-6 years. >>61607191 it's not all that expensive if you're employed.

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Got myself a proper setup after selling some old shit.

Things not in pic:
Case: U-NAS NSC-400
Motherboard: MSI H110I PRO
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2133
CPU fan: SilverStone Nitrogon NT07-115X

This thing will last for years.

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A RAID6 of 8 X 4 tb Hitachi NAS drives, 1 tb temp cache of SSD storage and a 512 gb Samsung M.2 960 pro boot drive

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>>61607626
offline 2 X 10 tb memegate Iron wolf drives as back up that I connect on weekly basis and backup RAID6

>>61607663
I do the same with a single IronWolf 10TB disk >>61607570

>>61607295
>ZFS
This means I'll have to access all my content via local network though.

I need to run some tests to see how much latency/speed impact local network has vs direct attachment.

I should note, I'm not setting up a RAID because I want to host a server.

16gb m.2 SSD

>needing storage

>>61607663
I do the same shit with my RAID6, except I've got 2x8TB IronWolf drives instead.

>>61607473
I don't know people always act surprised at what people store on 20TB+.

Blu-ray movies
1080p TV show rips
Games

In my case, I have every game from 1st generation to 7th generation.(Well, not Xbox 360, fuck 360)

Software(All adobe CC, Autodesk maya,etc)

Porn
Entire sync of gelbooru, nhentai, pixiv,etc.
Siterips of other porn sites.
H-games from DLSite


I could write a short novel on all my content. I started my collection when I was 10 by backing up all my content to CD's, so it's just part of me.

Laptop:
250gb SSD
1tb HD

Desktop
Corsair 120gb SSD running the OS
WD Blue 500gb SSD for gaymen
WD Caviar Black 2tb for storage

I did have two WD Blacks on the computer but one of them failed recently, hence the new WD SSD. I may also replace the bigger HD for an even bigger one and am even thinking about making a sort of mini-server inside of my main computer.

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>>61607995
>needing 16gb
>falling for the SSD meme

>>61608079
How big are the booru and hentai rips?

well my 1tb seagate hdd fucking died yesterday, lost everything because im a retard who doesnt do backups

now have
275gb crucial ssd
640gb wd hdd
500gb fujitsu hdd that i took from an old laptop

>>61599160
>Thinking you have to run them all of the time
>Thinking $88 is a problem to someone spending $16,000 on HDDs

>>61607344
W10 alone never totally shutdown.
Even on hdd boot is fast.
On my NVM after post it takes 2 sec to boot.

Pny ssd 500gb
Hgst 3tb
Seagate st100d002 3tb

Planning on replace the seagate because is starting to make click noise for a new 4tb st100d005 of the same brand, does it have the same problem of dying earlier?

>tfw this thread is making me realize that my hard drives are getting old and I still don't have a real backup system in place

Who /data loss anxiety/ here?

>>61608198
Fuck, I mean st4000dm005 for the new 4tb hdd

>>61608241
me >>61608198

>>61608118
That's hard to say.
I use Hydrus Network(auto tag/subscription program) to store my Gelbooru siterip, which is also mixed with a bunch of other siterips. I know it's not over 3TB for Gelbooru specifically. However it changes since my Hydrus subscription downloads anything new uploaded to gelbooru hourly.

nhentai(doujin) takes up a lot of space though. It's around 6TB.

>>61597757
>RAID5
Please don't.

>>61608241
I do, because it would be expensive to mirror all my storage now.

I wish HDD's failed in a logical way. Like, running a SMART test would show "HDD has x days left" instead of just randomly not working with no warning.

1 Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD
Third worlder here. ;-;

>>61597407
2TB of WD black storage pulled out of old family machines, one for programs and what the fuck not and the other for games.

>>61608279
>nhentai
Why? They downscale their stuff.

>>61608346
I also wish the laws of physics worked differently and we could predict everything without issues.

6x1TB + 2x2TB
Raid 5.--.Raid 1

>>61608346
Pretty much this. You never know when it's going to fail, or what important shit is going to be forever lost. Its like having your house burn down with all your belongings inside.

>>61608484
Yeah entropy sucks. We're all going to die.

>>61608443
Because ripping sad panda is near impossible due to their aggressive scripts that detect bots. I have enough download points to rip their site, but it'd be too much of a pain to constantly experiment with how much I can download while going undetected.

>>61608484
>Its like having your house burn down with all your belongings inside
Except house fires are 99% of the time a user problem. Rarely will your house burn down because loose wiring inside the house somehow caused a spark. Not that great of an analogy.

HDD's are like ticking time bombs.

Is there any point in buying a 10gps NIC w/ CAT6 if it'll just get bottlenecked by your HDD, which @ 7200RPM I believe is around 500mbps.

>SSD's
Yes but they're too expensive for mass storage

>>61607663
is working on a server farm a dream job?

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6x12TB helium drives, just got here 15 minutes ago

>>61608903
Does it makes your computer sounds funny?

>>61608917
I laughed, nice.

>>61608903
Where's the livestream faggot?

>>61597407
128GB Adata su800 3d nand, which turned out to be fucking good
Also 1GB RAMDisk for browser, visual studio, and other cache

>>61608523
What about torrents?

>>61608903
Where did you buy the 12TB helium drives from? I don't see them on Amazon

>>61608966
1) Not every doujin from SadPanda has a torrent
2) Not every torrent is properly seeded.
3) It'll be significantly slower since Sad Panda's torrents don't have a dedicated host but instead rely on a public swarm, where as nhentai's torrents had a dedicated host.
4) I only rip content in which I can have a near perfection collection.

>>61608903
Is this all you're giving us? Where are the other pictures? How about a video of you setting these drives up and powering shit up?

Think of all the shit /g/ has done for you. We deserve this.

>>61608930
what the hell, get your tiny storage ass out of here.

this thread is for big boys with 10TB+

>>61609109
Feels good not being some virtual entertainment junkie/hoarder.

>>61608903
are they any lighter?

>>61609175
Was that a joke?

8x3TB WD Reds in RAID10 = 12TB
8x3TB HP (seagate) whatever enterprise in RAID10 = 12TB
6x500GB ADATA SP550 SSDs in RAID10 = 1.5TB
4x8TB Shucked Seagate backup drives in RAID 5 = 24TB
Misc: 1TB Black, 2TB Red, 500GB Blue, 3x500GB seagayt

That's my personal stuff. I have two Equallogic sans in my colo for 24x8TB WD Reds Pros each in RAID10. 384TB each or 192TB the way it's configured. Plus whatever internal storage each server has.

Gonna buy a SSD to add on to my laptop soon, lads. It only has space for a SATA M.2. What's the good manufacturer these days?

>>61609424
Oh forgot 4x480GB Intel SSDs in raid5 in my other personal desktop. That's most of my SSD and 3.5" storage. Continue?

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>>61608927
>>61608985
>>61609106
haha tricked lmao they're just 1TB HDDs

losers

Are Raid 0 drives supposed to have a "clackling" sound as if the heads are jumping from point to point? They work fine otherwise. No errors in any software used.

>>61609559
>Tricking me on the Internet
I'll find you.

>>61609481
Why do you personally need 192TB?
Not that I believe you

22TB

4x4TB 2.5" Seagate
1x5TB 2.5" Seagate

8TB are backup

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how much do you pay for electricity?

3TB WD black
3TB WD green
256GB Samsung 840 PRO
750GB Crucial MX300
1TB Verbatim External HDD
1TB HGST External HDD

Plan to purchase: 4TB WD blue

>>61609961
seems tacky to just leave a bay sitting out like that. why dont you buy a cabinet

>>61601217

Sleep tite storage man

>>61601217
>Linus
>Is only using all that storage for his dumb videos

>>61607570

Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                         3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev

What's the point of udev?

>>61610217
I'm not really planning to expand this setup for next year, maybe a switch.

Can I get some storage advice? I do a lot of photo and video editing but I'm not sure what hard drive I should buy. In the past I used an external hard drive but Im trying to save space on my desk. What's a good hard drive for mass storage? WD Red? I've always just bought whatever was on sale since I was poor but now I have a money.
I'm also considering a small NVMe ssd for scratch disk but I have no clue what to get. I usually see 960 Evos recommended but anons on /g/ have complained about them.

>>61597441
>Which one will fail first

I just bought a 3TB WD Red and will build my first NAS/Server in the coming days. It will have a 60gb system SSD and a 32gb recovery installation on a USB stick built into the case.

Then I can snapshot and restore my entire system with no hassle.

4.5TB.
Seagate 1TB 2.5" External HDD
Iomega 1TB 2.5" External HDD
WD 1.5TB 2.5" External HDD
WD 1TB 2.5" External HDD (Pc Backup)

Just purchased a 4TB HGST Deskstar to backup the first three drives since they're getting pretty old.

>>61611634
Get 2x4TB 2.5" Seagates. Super convenient, cheap, and with 2 of them you can back up your shit twice. Keep one at a friends house or something like that. If you really have money, get 3 of them, it's like 300 bucks or something not that bad.

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720 4TB Toshiba MG03SCA400 SAS HDDs

WD's are poop
Seagates are double poop unless you get them from dell and have a warranty
Hitachis are best

>>61611808
Cool, I'll check it out.thanks anon

>>61611902
Get HGST instead of Seagate.

>>61611832
What job?

>>61611832
What's the point of SAS for regular users?

What actual advantages does it have?

>>61597407
all of it

>>61609559
You're gay

>>61612018
Full duplex and longass cables.

>>61611934
Seagate isn't shit any more, the new backblaze statistics confirm it. Get with the times grandpa.

>>61609716
The stuff above is personal. The Equallogics are for my business. I sell backup and DR space.

>>61612099
Did HGST get dethroned then? If not, shut up.

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>>61611969
Director of Operations

>>61612018
So a few things, first they tend to have a much lower failure rate unless you get Seagates which in that case they fail about the same. The only Seagate that has ever been worth a shit are the 4TB NAS drives (MD4000 I believe was the product ID). Additionally, they tend to have better throughput and random read/write performance then regular desktop drives, but unless you're running a RAID where you need some throughput and you're using all your SSD/RAM cache it's not necessary. This buildout is likely going ot be the last rust deployment that I do. Everything else is SSD these days, thank god.

A bit over 11 TB
>1 TB ssd
>2x 4 TB internal hdds
>2x 1 TB external hdds
>500 GB hdd
>Another 350-400 GB in misc memory card and flash drives

Enough that I have backups of absolutely everything, and redundant backups of nearly everything.

>>61612099
>anymore
They were never shit.
They just had a really bad batch of 3TB HDD's that sort of ruined their rep.

all brand HDD failure rates are all still in the <2% range.

HDD failure rate shouldn't really even be a concern if you have a proper setup.

>>61612136
Bullshit, the 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB other than the MD4000 were all shit. The 8TB drives have shit ass performance and I haven't touched anything above that. This includes all of their 10-15k SAS drives they produced as well. Backblaze is a fantastic resource of information and they'll confirm it's mainly those sweet cheap MD4000 drives that are the money. The rest are poop.

>>61612131
It's nice to see there are other professionals on here still.

>>61612131
Oh and 4th from the bottom has a failure.

How do you guys take backups?

>>61612299
borg and rsync

>>61612299
I have a script which takes what's important.

>>61612299
Rsync, sometimes tarballs. Sometimes along with a recursive md5summing of everything.

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This, primarily.

>>61597407
>12TB RAID 6 FreeNAS
>Hitachi/HGST ultrastars are god tier
>See above

Can you do RAID 10 on RAID 10 such that you only get 1/4 of your total disk space and massive speeds?

>>61612467
I guess using hardware and then a software raid on top, but why?

>>61612525
Unlimited speeds.

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>>61612467
>RAID 100, sometimes also called RAID 10+0, is a stripe of RAID 10s. This is logically equivalent to a wider RAID 10 array, but is generally implemented using software RAID 0 over hardware RAID 10.

>>61597407
Raid fag here, Debian in RAID-0 accross 6 HDDs

>>61612553
I'm going to do this with SSDs.

>>61612637
For what purpose? You do realize that there is limited bandwidth through the RAID cards you use or the ports on the board you use right?

You do realize RAMdrives are faster right?

>>61612553
I don't really see the point of this over a wider RAID10
Looks like some sort of work-around for a broken software raid system

HyperX fury 120gb ssd
Seagate barracuda 1tb (most relyable hdd i have ever owned has served me well for about 7 years)
wd blue 320gb
wd blue 250gb
wd green 1tb (slow af)

>>61612889
I'll go with RAMdrives then.

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>>61607068
btrfs raid 5, u for real niggah? enjoy losing data unless you're doing the raid with mdadm or sumthing

baka senpai

>>61612993
RAID5/6 is no longer broken, just slightly mad.

>>61613012
why would you use raid at all when you can use ZFS?

>>61613012
According to the release notes.. I wouldn't trust it quite yet though.

5tb drive for work
5tb drive for work backup - no raid, just usb external drives that i copy-paste stuff too, im normalfag.
1tb drive for games
1tb drive for tv serials
1tb drive for animu, but i've opened it last time 2 years ago, so it'll probably be formatted anyway
1tb drive for movies
1tb drive for software
320gb drive for temp files, swap file and downlaod folder
320gb drive for porn
320gb drive for software that im using
320gb drvive for software resources (fonts, textures, brushes)
120gb ssd for system
120gb ssd for steam

really need to scratch anything below 5tb and consolidate it into one/two 5tb drives.

All of my drives are truecrypt encrypted btw, because tinfoil.

>>61613210
awfully non-dynamic

>>61613210
>truecrypt encrypted
>tinfoil
>not even dm-crypt

>>61608178
You do. Spin down in an array type setup is retarded as the moment you need to access a single 4k sector not in ARC you have to input double power to spin up and wait out the ~5 seconds of input lag for everything to come back.
Or if you have to turn off the array... Fuck.
Spinning up that great mass of clanking iron is going to provoke some weaker ones to failure as it's more mechanically grating to spin up than to let spin or let rest.

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bought this for 200 bones brand new
1tb ssd is all i need desu since im not gonna be downloading useless anime shit

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>>61613210
Simplify your life.
Get BTRFS or ZFS.
At beyond 2TBs not having checksums for anything other than vidya files is absurd.

Use dm-crypt layer or LUKS.

Sleep tite storage man

>>61613210
>320gb drive for porn
why dont u just buy an wd black? faster porn access

Do programs like rsync and freefilesync work on different drives in the same system?
I want to mirror my ssd to an hdd so raid is a terrible idea right?

>>61613524
Rsync works between anything anywhere. Local drives, NFS shares, tunneled over SSH.
With mdraid you can make a RAID1 and tell it to write-mostly to the spindisk, so Linux won't get the idea of bogging it down with read commands.

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>>61613384
Not that anon but what is BTRFS and ZFS?

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What do you store in that much storage?
Is there anything useful/worh it to store?

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~8.1TB total:
2TB WD Green
3TB WD Red
3TB external Seagate (for backups)
120GB Kingston SSD

The WD Green is much more noisy than the WD Red, not buying Greens anymore.

Should I be concerned about my SSD, it has started losing condition somewhat steadily, starting from 97% few months ago and now down to 94%. Is there a catastrophic failure to be expected or is it enough to keep an eye on it and buy a new one later? Pic related, the drive.

>>61613811
Filesystems with extra gimmicks.
BTRFS can span over multiple devices, can automatically store multiple copies of the same data (kinda like RAID1) and give you transparent compresison of on-disk data (CPU cycles are plenty, disk-IO is not). A use case for BTRFS is if you have a bunch of drives in different sizes, it'll spread data evenly on them. If you tell it to "RAID1" the data, it'll make sure to store the copies on different drives.

>>61613224
dont know what non-dynamic is
>>61613259
it just wekrs, im using windows anyways
>>61613384
im using windows, so ntfs or bust.

To all the naysayers - im using 3ds max and few windows-only based programs, so no, install gentoo is not an option.

>>61614099
>it just wekrs, im using windows anyways
LibreCrypt

>>61614210
isnt is ~less~ secure than truecrypt?

>>61614239
It's dm-crypt, so no.

>>61614283
cool, will try it next time i do the files backup

>>61597407
600GB WD and Samsung

20.5TB
4x 240GB HyperX SSD in R10
2x 4TB WD Red
2x 6TB WD Red

Been meaning to upgrade boot drive to NVME and replace the WD with 8TB versions, trying to find a justification for the cost though.

>>61614099
>im using windows, so ntfs or bust.
You do realize you can still keep your storage on a separate file system, right? You setup ZTFS/linux distro on the storage, then access via your local network.

Your local network doesn't touch your internet, nor do you even need an ISP for it to work. The latency will barely be noticable, so it'd be as if the storage was connected via USB3 or SATA anyway.

This way you can use Windows, while having a superior file system for your mass storage.

>>61614901
but i need separate machine for it, right?
I have some 2x xeon cpu server with 64gb of ram lying around, im just too lazy to set it up proprly - i have hyper-v there with some virtual amchines for testing, as well network rendering, but never considered setting up NAS there - it is wise to just install another VM with some FREE AS FREEDUM linux, and set up all the disks there? Im clueless, i just use solutions that works, i took pleasure from fucking around PCs 10 years ago, now i consider them just tools for the work.

>>61613370

>all i need

something something 640k....

come on man its never enough

>>61597407
File server
3TB raid 5 (2TB usable) 7k2 2xRE4 + constellation ES on SATAII
1TB 5k9 WD red for windows server 2016 + Storage

Main workstation (All sataII)
128GB ssd
500GB 7k2 seagate
1TB 7k2 2.5" HGST

>>61610468
>anon
>is only using his storage for Chinese cartoons

>>61615432
Nope.
I have a wide array of things I collect and do.

>>61613012

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56

lad I....

>>61601217
sleep tite storage man

Desktop: WD/Seagate
160GB WD (OS/Programs)
1.5TB Seagate (Data/Backups/Temp Space)

Server: Seagate
1TB (OS/Client Backups)
9TB (3TBx4 Raid-5,Data)

NAS (Old Server data backup)
2 x 4TB = 8TB (Raid -0) Seagate

USB External drive (New server data/os image)
3TB Seagate

Laptop - 80GB
Netbook (Girlfriend's) - 320GB SSD

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Update

I just got my 2 WD Easystore 8tb usb external drives.

Gutted them both and they had full 3.5" drives. 8tb Reds, and even a slightly more special version with 256mb of cache. The bare drive goes for $260, this cost me $160.

If the Best Buy deal is still going, I recommend you get it before it's gone.

>>61616753
Wish I lived in the States...

>>61616818
What third world country do you live in anon?

>>61616827
Norway.

>>61616848
I'm so sorry. This really is a killer deal.

>>61597407

10TB. Trying to build a NAS, but I could get any help in pcbuidling

>>61616859
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401

$260 hard drive for $160

Buy a couple of these bad boys, open them, gut the drives, and upgrade your NAS >>61616753

>>61616753
I bought one just for storage. I will probably just leave it in the enclosure. If it doesn't explode or some shit, then it's a great deal.

120GB Corsair Force GT
500GB Samsung 840 Evo
512GB Samsung 960 Pro
3x2TB HDDs from Samsung, Hitachi, and Toshiba
>Some of my HDDs are from like 2009, can't wait to go all solid state

>>61616878

Actually I bought one of these. I plan on buying a few more. I shucked it open and put it in my main machine for now. But I was thinking of buying a rackmount server. I have the specs all planned out, I'm just not sure if they'll work fine with FreeNAS/zfs

>>61597407
30TB of WD greens

Is this a good build for a home NAS, and HTPC?

NAS:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/C87mTH

I think this should be enough RAM for just a media server. Going to use FreeNAS

HTPC:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FZWhcc

This should do fine with 4K shit. Might add a video card some day. This'll run Kodibuntu

>>61616753
Has anyone figured out the reason for this? Is it WD RED but they've disabled TLER since they're sold as single drives?

Has anyone confirmed it's still running stock RED firmware?

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>>61597407
6× 3TB drives
2× 640 GB drives
All pairs of drives in software-RAID1, which are then used in for LVM PVs. Shared with all the systems on my network over NFS.

I use mostly WD, but since it's all in RAID 1, I don't care all that much. A failing drive is easily replaced, and I have drives lying for spares.

>>61599566
That's very funny. I've allocated 20 GB of my LVM space to my root partition, and I've never even had to think about it. Now that I look, it's currently using 12 GB, but there's probably a fuckton of stuff I could remove trivially if it were ever to become a problem.

Is that what you get for using Windows?

>>61599212
Where do you get a bay like that? I'd love a similar setup (though properly RAIDed), but I just can't seem to find any reasonable enclosures anywhere. How do you connect it to the host system?

>>61617116
FreeBSD?

>>61617210
No, Debian Stable.

>>61617210
>>61617247
That being said, though, I have strongly considered FreeBSD from time to time, but it doesn't seem worth going through the trouble of trying to migrate all the data.

>>61617080
Tell me how to check for that and I'll plug in my gutted red drive.

>>61617080
They're legit WD Reds except with 1 year less of a warranty. The MyBook drives come with a White label drive that doesn't have TLER turned on by default but you can turn it on. They're all based of the HGST He8. Also shucking them doesn't void anything, you can still RMA. Ignore the retards that say otherwise.

>>61613210
>1tb drive for games
>120gb ssd for steam

wtf why does steam need its own 120gb ssd if it's not for games?

where can i find used drives at a low cost? obviously craigslist, but where else. monitors too
dumpsters behind tech retailers, maybe?

>>61618406
What kind of hard drives and how much money are you willing to spend?

Samsung SSDs, Seagate HDDs

WD is shit

>>61598516
bretty gud deal. lets hope they last.

>>61601217
Sleep tite storage man

I just wish prices would drop on the 100-120gb BR discs. Would love to get a spindle of 100gb or something for under $100.

>>61618803
any as long as theyre cheap and over 500gb
HDDs under 7200rpm are useless to me though

>>61618830
I've recently gutted the hard drives shared on here and now have 3 drives I need to sell.

All 3tb WD Reds around 1 year and a few months old, used as archival drives. Not much data written to them.

$55 a piece if you're interested?

>>61597407
>19.2TB total
>2x600gb Velociraptors in Raid 0 for OS/software/current games
>2TB Toshiba for storage for images, game backups, disk images
>2TB Seagate Barracuda for media/misc storage
>7x2TB HGST Ultrastars for backup that I haven't set up yet

>>61618873
nah
i was looking for ideas on where i could find sources myself locally

Want to get a network storage device that everyone in the home can backup to, any recommendations, will probably need 4TB usable

>>61619124
FreeNAS on a cheap PC. This reduces costs to getting a pair of hard drives.