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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...

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...

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...

@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...

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...

@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)...

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.

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...

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...

@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...

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...

@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...

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...

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...

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...

@paret0, well said my friend :) I'm just a mad scientist trying to conquer the world that's all. About to put down the money for a brand new drive from dell. Just prefer their customer service and return policies. HP and IBM are virtually non-existent in Canada. One last question, where should...

@GeorgeHR, I know I have tons of crap but that's the way these data are. The purpose is NOT just for trading, its a crazy experiment to employ home-grown OCR technology on PDFs to interpret and analyze data (i.e. like I said, data-mining). Sadly my technology is still evolving so I cannot...

Ya I thought it was too good to be true:) We all know unlimited normally means throttle after 3GB:D

Oh, I don't actually need incremental backups. The files are organized by SEC's submission dates. They are not edited in any way other than compression to zip as required. My program unzips them on the fly in memory when using them. I'm imagining each tape will probably store half-year worth of...

Wow, that's makes perfect sense, thanks for such detailed information! I'll give these guys a call and see how much it costs to ship to Canada. Its a shame there isn't too much second-hand enterprise hardware vendor in Canada. I really envy people in the silicon valley.:( @Brahmzy, the cost of...

Thanks for the reply man. Couple more questions. What's the purpose of a tape library? To store tapes so you don't have to manually change tapes? Sorry still new at this. If you are storing these tapes inside the case, wouldn't you defeat the purpose of offsite backup? Say if I only want to...

Hi All, I'm a long time reader and first time poster. Some posts here really helped me build my last file server. Thanks! Now I have a new problem hope to get some advise on. I have a very LARGE (for home user) data collection for my personal data-mining project. Basically financial data...