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[Rick Sanchez]

Server is up and running with Xen installed. Only two drives in it at the moment until it's fully set up. I'll keep you updated

[Rick Sanchez]

Hi guys,

I need to upgrade my hard drives this week. Would you go for WD or HSGT 4TB or? I will be ordering by Wednesday.

Does anyone know of any good deals?

[Mr.James]

I just bought a WD Red 4TB from ebuyer last week. £132 inc vat

[Rick Sanchez]

Not a bad price, apparently the HGSTs have a lower failure rate

[Mr.James]

Mean time before failure is 114 years on the WD reds and WD have always produced reliable drives... I've read the HGSTs are double that but their DeskStar drives were nicknamed DeathStar drives because of how often thy failed. I've had a good few of them fail on me so I'd jut never go back.

Part of me thinks it's just luck of the draw though. If you get a dive that's packaged right and taken care of in transit it will last a lot longer than one that's been banged about.

[Over Carl]

Part of me thinks it's just luck of the draw though. If you get a dive that's packaged right and taken care of in transit it will last a lot longer than one that's been banged about.

I came to the exact same conclusion. I had a few DoA's with some HGST drives that had a silly high MTBF.

[Mr.James]

The only thing I can say about hard drives is to never trust them. Even if it's spanking new always make sure you have a backup of the data you would miss if it packed up

[Rick Sanchez]

Well, I've just purchased another two 4TB Red drives. When they arrive I'll have 16TB+ in space

[Rick Sanchez]

Setup completed pretty much:

Server; Case: Silverstone DS380 CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1230 v3 MOBO: ASRock E3C226D2I LGA 1150 Mini-ITX [IPMI] RAM: 16GB Kingston 8GB ECC KVR16E11/8 PSU: 450W Silverstone SST-ST45SF-G UPS: APC BR900GI 540 Watts /900 VA Parity: WD40EFRX 4TB Drive Pool: WD40EFRX 4TB x5 Cache: 500GB SDD VM Drive: 240GB SSD

[Mr.James]

At 29 months from thread start to finish, it's about time you start spec'ing the next one yeah?

[Rick Sanchez]

Not for at least five years; especially now UnRAID runs both VM and Docker flawlessly

[Rick Sanchez]

I was wondering if anyone else had a home server now or an update on their situation?

[raelmadrid]

67tb* (lol)

[DejaVu]

TB?

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[Mr.James]

lol.

Maybe you should look at consolidating all but one of them onto one of these bad boys:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/worlds-...-60tb-monster/

[Mystical_2K]

67tb* (lol)

nice! thought i was doing well on 56TB

[DejaVu]

I was coping OK with 12TB to begin with. Not sure I could possibly fill that much, but I'd give it a good go. 67TBs is insane.

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[Rick Sanchez]

Do you have any photos of your setup?

What do you use it for? Just media storage or?

[raelmadrid]

all 1080p and 4k TV and films, will get 2 more Orico 5 bays eventually to tidy it up. Everything is running on sata/usb3 though so transfer speed is fine

[Rick Sanchez]

Update:

AV Setup: LG LM960V 47", Onkyo TX NR-807 and a N64.

Server:
Case: Silverstone DS380 CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1230 v3 MOBO: ASRock E3C226D2I LGA 1150 Mini-ITX [IPMI] RAM: 16GB Kingston 8GB ECC KVR16E11/8 PSU: 450W Silverstone SST-ST45SF-G UPS: APC BR900GI 540 Watts /900 VA Parity: WD40EFRX 4TB Drive Pool: WD40EFRX 4TB x8 Cache: 500GB SDD VM Drive: 240GB SSD Software: UnRAID + Windows 10 + Dockers