I want to build a proper server with room for 40+ HDDs to move my media server to and have RAID 1. I know a lot about PCs and software, but when it comes to server hardware I have no clue what I’m doing. How would I go about building a server that has access to 40+ RAID 1’d HDDs?

  • Sims@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    40+ disks ?? I crammed a mini server with 7 old HDD’s totaling 2 tb and felt I was king of self-hosted! Now I feel small and peasant-like, damn you ;)

    I am a bit curios what the average amount of disks/totalsize is for other data hoard… self hosters in this sub ?

    • GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      I only have 140TB atm, but I plan to expand. I want to backup all my Blu-rays, which will be at least 10 more HDDs. 2TBs used to be a lot. Lol

      • Sims@lemmy.ml
        1·
        7 months ago

        Ha, wild server :-) Yeah, I suddenly felt really old too ;-) Well I still have TWO whole free usb ports (2.0) on my tiny server, so I’m not upgrading yet !! 🙃