[mythtv-users] A Myther can dream, right?

[Another Sillyname]

The 2950 wouldn't allow the number of drives I wanted all in one box,
the DS380 allows 8 x 3.5" + 4 x 2.5", so in the configuration I'm
building I'll end up with 36TB RAID6 (so pretty high redundancy) and
3TB RAID5 as my 'boot/OS/working' area.  I would expect that'll keep
me going for the next 5 years at least and in a nice compact box that
I can move without too many problems.  My current setup has 16TB in
it's RAID6 setup with the drives mounted in some M35 Mobile Racks to
ensure cooling, I'll be keeping that as a backup unit although I'll
probably retire the drives and sell them off replacing them in a year
or two with 8TB versions and then use it as a full blown backup box
(the only way to effectively backup large storage units with anything
approaching a reasonable restore time these days is with another large
storage unit!!).

I'm sure most of the professionals here would agree that the most
common cause of drive failure of a long period is temperature and any
setup must have some methodology for ensuring drive temps are kept as
low as practicable.



On 18 August 2014 12:45, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Another Sillyname
> <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Or you can go for the cheap/home 36TB Mini ITX version......about $2k-$3k
>>
>
> My BE is a VM on a Poweredge 2950 running ESXi 5.5. I just bought a
> Poweredge R710 off Ebay and plan on installing 6 4TB drives in a RAID 6 and
> making it a second ESXi node. This will give me about 16TB usable plus the 7
> or so TB in my existing fiber-attached XServe RAID.
>
> Your build is intriguing and I had considered building my own, but at the
> end of the day I wanted something that I knew would "just work" for my needs
> and was reliable. I wanted a SAN device but unfortunately, fiber-attached
> boxes that could handle SATA disks were either prohibitively expensive or
> brands I had never heard of. I started looking at things like the Synology
> enclosures using iSCSI for my connectivity but those enclosures cost around
> a grand on newegg. I figured I'd be better off spending that money on
> something I can run a few VMs on along with my BE. The box should be a hair
> under $2k when it's up and running.
>
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