44 drive storage chassis for $200, originally developed for a storage-based cryptocurrency https://www.ebay.com/itm/326164712339
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44 drive storage chassis for $200, originally developed for a storage-based cryptocurrency https://www.ebay.com/itm/326164712339
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You could populate this with 44 12TB drives which are $73 each shipped, bringing you to $3212 for half a petabyte of raw storage or 412TB in double-parity RAID-Z2. It's very unpractical though.
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@SwiftOnSecurity With 44 drives and that weird setup, I’d probably use draid2:8d:44c:4s. You lose four drives off the top as distributed spares, then the remaining 40 are split into groups of 8 data plus 2 fault tolerance for 4 groups x 8 drives per group x 12 TB per drive => 384 TB usable before compression.
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Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocidereplied to Zimmie last edited by
@bob_zim @SwiftOnSecurity Where are you getting drives that cheap? Pulls/refurbs from somewhere?
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Zimmiereplied to Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide last edited by
@Infoseepage @SwiftOnSecurity Yeah, refurb helium-filled datacenter drives are extremely reliable and pretty cheap. 12 TB seems to be the current best price:capacity ratio. I got a pile of 12 TB HGST Ultrastars earlier this year for about $80 each.
For use in an enclosure, you have to watch out for the “Power Disable” feature. It repurposed a pin in the power connector from 3.3v supply to the drive to instead *reboot the drive controller* when it’s pulled high. The idea is to let datacenter operators reboot drives remotely without needing someone to go pull the drive and reinsert it. When you plug a drive which has this feature into a backplane which predates it, the drive’s controller will continually reboot which manifests as the drive never spinning up.
