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Been building this server up for about 5 years, adding hard drives as needed.
Running unraid
E5-2698 v3
64gb ddr4 ecc
X99-E WS
P600 for transcoding
10gbit networking w/ 3gbit fibre WAN
15 HDDs of assorted sizes, totally 148TB, 132TB usable
Wow, that's massive! How's the backup situation? Do you backup the data?
No it’s just Linux ISOs, easy to reaquire ;p. I backup my radarr and sonarr databases so I can easily recover if need be
Oh man this is nice. I've been juggling space with an 8TB drive for years (got one when it was the biggest you could get). Recently after deleting some old stuff to free up space I discovered all the newer stuff was fragmented to shit. I was able to squeeze as much as I could onto SSDs and SD cards, defragment the entire thing with Defraggler, and move everything back into defragmented free space. I've managed to pack it like a can of sardines - I've gotten it down to less than 2GB free with no more than 2 or 3 fragments for most files, 7 tops. Still transfers both read and write at around 80MB/s average.
I've experimented with Plex, but since I used to only use the one system with Kodi I never bothered. I recently got a small HTPC to use with an old 3D TV and it's super easy to move Kodi's db to an external MySQL server to sync paused playback and completed lists etc.
I can also just connect Kodi to nVidia shield/moonlight and watch my entire library on my handheld wherever I go, without any additional setup other than Kodi on my desktop and making use of Moonlight which I use for emulating games a bit too powerful for my handheld
Do you download the 4k Linux ISOs?
My automation is set to download the highest quality available, so yes lots of 4K remuxes
Least insane porn connoisseur
Any recommendations on hdds?
Great hardware.
Unraid... shudders
What would you pick over Unraid?
Linux software LVMRAID or better yet - ZFS.
But I don't want to spend my free time managing yet another server. Slap unraid on it an call it a day.
I was referring to the actual storage system. Unraid's funny JBOD vs some easy to use industry standard solutions. Not the overall OS with any dancing bears it displays, or doesn't. ☺️
If you're looking at the latter, I have no argument against installing something with easy to use interface etc. like Unraid.
Unraid supports zfs pools as of the 6.12 update
How many concurrent users do you get on average?
At most maybe 4 lol
What does your parirty arrangement look like?
Just a single 16tb drive for now. I need a bigger chassis to do dual parity
Oof, definitely recommend dual parity for this many drives.