OT q for Pluckyhd re 30 TB storage

[tmiranda]

Plucky,

What are you using to get 30 TB of data and how do you back it up?

Tom

[Fuzzy]

Odds are, if he's using the 30TB for media.. he isn't backing it up... as for how he's getting 30TB, my first guess would be a lot of hardrives...

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

... as for how he's getting 30TB, my first guess would be a lot of hardrives...

Simply brilliant. I never would have thought of that

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Simply brilliant. I never would have thought of that

Hey, i'm not the one who asked...

[jorton]

I think its multiple (multi bay) external esata enclosures (sans digital???) with raid 5.

J

[PLUCKYHD]

30TB was the original amount I am over that now but now sure by how much . It is not the usuable amount as I run a raid 5 in external esata enclosures has been great for me.

[jorton]

I think you're going to end up on next episode of "Hoarders"

J

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Simply brilliant. I never would have thought of that

You should have seen that coming from fuzzy...

[davephan]

The other question is how much of the 30 TB is actually watched? It's probably a very tiny percentage. I have about 20 TB between the SageTV computer and unRAID server. Once you get over a few TB, your percentage of watched videos drops very fast. There just isn't enough time in a day to watch that much video. But someday, you might just want to watch the video you did not have to delete!

Dave

[rdellar17]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

30TB was the original amount I am over that now but now sure by how much . It is not the usuable amount as I run a raid 5 in external esata enclosures has been great for me.

Curious... How many and what model/brand of enclosures do you have or prefer? Do you back up the RAID5 in any way?

(I am getting ready to do a build and I'm trying to decide what to do. If it works for you it will probably work for anyone. )

[tmiranda]

I thought I had a pretty decent amount of storage with 10 TB.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by davephan

The other question is how much of the 30 TB is actually watched? It's probably a very tiny percentage. I have about 20 TB between the SageTV computer and unRAID server. Once you get over a few TB, your percentage of watched videos drops very fast. There just isn't enough time in a day to watch that much video. But someday, you might just want to watch the video you did not have to delete!

Dave

Actually we Watch more movies than tv and with the kiddo always playing movies and never finishing an jumping to another. There are those movies that we "may watch again "

Originally Posted by rdellar17

Curious... How many and what model/brand of enclosures do you have or prefer? Do you back up the RAID5 in any way?

(I am getting ready to do a build and I'm trying to decide what to do. If it works for you it will probably work for anyone. )

Do I prefer or could I afford for home . I use the 8 bay sans digital with esata raid cards. I have 3 now and don't have any issues. If money is no object a good 3ware with a battery backup. Either way may sure you have a good reliable battery backup.

Originally Posted by tmiranda

I thought I had a pretty decent amount of storage with 10 TB.

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[sm4284]

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[panteragstk]

$800 for an empty enclosure? Seriously? I get it that it has every port you could ever want but wow. Only 5 bays?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

$800 for an empty enclosure? Seriously? I get it that it has every port you could ever want but wow. Only 5 bays?

Yeah they are way overpriced i will take raid anyday.Can get a 8 bay enclosure and 10tb of drives for that price. And still have room for 4 more drives

[Zuhkov]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

I use the 8 bay sans digital with esata raid cards. I have 3 now and don't have any issues.

This may be more of a chicken and egg question, but did you decide initially to minimize the number of internal tuners (just the 1 colossus listed in your sig) in favor of more PCI-E slots for esata raid cards or were you forced to move away from internal tuners in order to free up the slots necessary for the raid cards?

Also, just out of curiousity, motherboard-wise, are you running something like a P45 ATX board?

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[panteragstk]

I feel like you're trying to sell me something...

[sm4284]

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[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by sm4284

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