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    Hardware RAID 5E vs 6 vs 10 for home media server

    Dude, these takes 2.5 inch drives, not 3.5 inch which we normally use as a consumer. Also for an drive enclosure I'll take SuperMicro branded ones over any other name brand. (And cheaper too, get it at newegg) If Kim DotCom uses SuperMicro exclusively for his new ExaByte Mega service, there...
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    Hardware RAID 5E vs 6 vs 10 for home media server

    One final point for you to consider: With ZFS, HW Raid, the more drives you have, the higher the probability of losing ALL data, regardless of the type of drive. e.g. P(failure of ENTIRE zfs pool) = P(single fail) ^ 3 * N * (N-1) * (N-2) (this is the formula for calculating 3 simultaneous...
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    Hardware RAID 5E vs 6 vs 10 for home media server

    No. There is a very clear downside of ZFS, mdadm or HW, in that if more than 2 drives (for RAID 6) dies due to cheap hardware (Green WD), because all the data are stripped. you are losing ALLLLLLL data. This will take months to replace. Given how cheaply these drive are made and heaven forbid...
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    Hardware RAID 5E vs 6 vs 10 for home media server

    @thejimmahknows, I'm in the same boat as you, except I'm backing up 60+TB of content.:D I'd say as far as backing up 20+TB of content for OFFLINE backup, Tape is the only way to go. For home users, you don't need a tape library. What you need is a stand-alone internal or external LTO Tape...
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    Hardware RAID 5E vs 6 vs 10 for home media server

    Seriously, people, please I BEG of you to stop pitching HW raids for HOME MEDIA server.:mad: Stripping HDDs either through HW Raids, or ZFS variants for home user is NEVER needed. It doesn't matter if you have 500+MB/s transfer speed when most home these days have no more than 1GB Lan (~100...
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    what should i get for my storage server?

    @morbid_looney, when you buy the norco, there are two brackets supplied that you can use to mount TWO drives inside the case. There is absolutely NO instructions for it so you have to be clever. If you google you might find pictures for it though. @DieTa, Flexraid comes with a GUI (web-based)...
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    SAS/SATA "Cages" vs Supermicro SC743TQ-865-SQ case

    seconded, the only thing that can compare with the backplane on these SC743TQ *IS* another supermicro backplane.:D Careful the fans are loud so be prepared to swap it out with a quieter fan such as Noctua NF-B9.
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    Kinda hdd related...

    SSDs don't need anything, they dont generate much heat so no active cooling is required, they have no moving parts so no need to be tied down. In fact, just throw them in there, stack them up, vertical or put them on a hamster wheel if you need to.:D Drive cages are designed for HDDs to dampen...
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    Need advise on tape backup for large home office data (50TB+growing)

    One more thing for you guys to comment on: Looks like Quantum is pushing out their LTO6 tape drive (Quantum TC-L62AN-EY Half Height) early 2013, for about $2000ish (there is already EBay sellers for it). This compares to a typical new LTO5 drive which is about $1500+ today, is only $500 more...
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    Need advise on tape backup for large home office data (50TB+growing)

    @nicholasfarmer I did try to use 25GB blurays for backup 1 year ago. They are somewhat competitive compares to HDD. Each 25GB disk is about $1 when buy in spindles. 50GB disks are still way to expensive @ $4 each Problem is that the sheer number of disks add up so quickly and it take FOREVER to...
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    what should i get for my storage server?

    reinstall the OS does not affect the data drives, it creates a small hidden directory on each drive to tag it, so just delete it and add to new flexraid as if its a new data drive, and rebuild parity. Some people on their forum suggest backup the directory/library and move over to the new OS...
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    Need advise on tape backup for large home office data (50TB+growing)

    @morbid, the internet here in Canada is stupidly slow for uploads. its unlimited 100Mbps down / 10 Mbps (i.e. ~1 MByte/s) up. It would take me a life time to upload them all. This is the fastest I can get for non-business. Business plans require a business address and are normally capped at...
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    what should i get for my storage server?

    Most people would recommend get a cheap Xeon E3 and ECC memory for fileserver. Both on here and ServeTheHome (which has a brilliant community as well). If you are gonna buy a new motherboard, go with Xeon, hands down. For a file server no more than 16GB ECC mem is needed. Even 4GB should be...
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    what should i get for my storage server?

    There is no need for OCE with Flexraid. You just put in drives as you see fit, with or without data. then include it in the pool and run a reconciliation job. NOTHING on these drives will be affected which is why they are so good for existing drives. ZFS and Unraid need complete reformats...
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    what should i get for my storage server?

    look into M1015, you can get 3 for less than $200, should cover 24 drives. Build a norco 4224 ($500ish), put in a simple Xeon E3 board+CPU ($400ish), make sure have 3x pcie8 slots. put in all 3 M1015s in IT mode. Get a quiet and decent PSU ($150ish) Totally should cost about $1000 To be...
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