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    Large Scale NAS

    > When ordering backups, do you mean of the actual backplane lane, or something else? I mean the actual backplanes there are 6 in those units, sometimes a port (SATA port) will be bad, so its good to order > 1-2 spares.
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    Largest sata laptop hard drive

    I'm also interested in 2TB 9.5mm.
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    Build-Log: 100TB Home Media Server

    I'd be curious what the failure rate on the drives in these cases are, how is the vibration? How long have you been running them?
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    First RAID box

    As others have mentioned, RAID is not a backup, if you don't want to spend more money, use the other drives as backup drives and backup throughout the course of a week to different drives.
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    First RAID box

    Are they all of the same brand? Or a mixture? How much do you want to protect your data? If you want a small HTPC, you could just get 2 x 4TB and put them in RAID-1 either with BIOS RAID (not great, but it works) or a RAID card.
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    Large Scale NAS

    Norco 24bay RPC4224 FTW (i use that connected to another box) with 10GbE, no expanders. NOTE though you may get a bad port on one of the backplanes, make sure to order a couple of spares so you don't have to wait for RMA.
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    SSD or HDD as my new primary system drive?

    If I built a new PC today I'd probably still go with the Samsung 840 PRO 512GB.
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    Toshiba PH3300U-1i72, TLER, Freenas?, which kind of raid?

    Everyone has their own opinion but I am fan of Debian Testing (been using Linux since 1996, started with RedHat)..
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    HD's Black, Red, Green or Blue?

    >> I used four 1TB Western Digital RE3's (Enterprise) for a long time and was very happy with them. Not a single failure in 5 years. I concur. I am HDD-less in my main PCs for the most part now and put 4TB/RAID disks in another host.
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    First RAID box

    If you are going for a NAS device, I recommend Synology, the 8-port model is $1000. If you are building your own you can go SW RAID or HW RAID. It all depends on how important your data is to you. >> Is a good RAID card (4+ hard drive support) about $150+? Most are $300+ I have a...
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    Which 4TB HDD for RAID 5?

    With 10 drives (RAID-6) I can get ~800-900 megabytes per second read over lftp on 10GbE, I am happy. I couldn't imagine moving > 30-60TB over 1GbE.
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    Death of an SSD. AKA wtf is wrong with this server?... ooohhh!

    Wow! Would love to see the smart stats/how much data was written to that SSD!
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    Which 4TB HDD for RAID 5?

    Speaking of 3ware cards, aside from eBay, do you know of anyone interested in a 3ware 9650SE-4PML w/BBU?
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    Which 4TB HDD for RAID 5?

    I went with 4TB Hitachi's, they go on-sale every so often to $189. Using them on a 3ware 9750-24i4e. Before that, I used 3TB Hitachi's, overall I like them (7200rpm variants). I'm not sure you'll see a huge speed increase, especially with RAID-5 but a newer controller would be helpful. I...
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    Logitech Revue & 3ware 9650SE-4PML + BBU-04 Kit

    Reduced Revue @ $53.99 3ware Controller @ $99.99
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