Final hard disk arrived (well, no, I had to collect it).
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Final hard disk arrived (well, no, I had to collect it). A 22TB Toshiba MG unit. This means I am now building a RAID1 array on my second NAS chassis. Once built my data will be on a Seagate Ironwolf Pro RAID5 array, and then copied nightly to a WD+Tosh RAID1 array on a separate chassis, in a different location. I am satisfied with that level of redundancy.
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Final hard disk arrived (well, no, I had to collect it). A 22TB Toshiba MG unit. This means I am now building a RAID1 array on my second NAS chassis. Once built my data will be on a Seagate Ironwolf Pro RAID5 array, and then copied nightly to a WD+Tosh RAID1 array on a separate chassis, in a different location. I am satisfied with that level of redundancy.
@bloor I wanted to move my RAID from 5 to 10 this year, but HD prices has convinced me that I don't need to store ALL that data forever.
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Final hard disk arrived (well, no, I had to collect it). A 22TB Toshiba MG unit. This means I am now building a RAID1 array on my second NAS chassis. Once built my data will be on a Seagate Ironwolf Pro RAID5 array, and then copied nightly to a WD+Tosh RAID1 array on a separate chassis, in a different location. I am satisfied with that level of redundancy.
I added up what this cost me.
And whilst it will wean me off some cloud storage, the recoup will be long, if ever.
Each 8T Ironwolf pro cost an average of just over £200. Four of those.
Each 22T cost an average of £440. Two of those.
The two chassis were bought in prime day, so a good but still not trivial price was paid.
“Just self-host” they say.
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Final hard disk arrived (well, no, I had to collect it). A 22TB Toshiba MG unit. This means I am now building a RAID1 array on my second NAS chassis. Once built my data will be on a Seagate Ironwolf Pro RAID5 array, and then copied nightly to a WD+Tosh RAID1 array on a separate chassis, in a different location. I am satisfied with that level of redundancy.
@bloor
TWENTY-TWO TERABYTES ???
I'd be scared at just how much a spof that represents. But then I remember I thought that with my first 1Gb disk too. -
@bloor
TWENTY-TWO TERABYTES ???
I'd be scared at just how much a spof that represents. But then I remember I thought that with my first 1Gb disk too.@alisonw well, indeed, except it’s one of two possible POFs in that chassis, and that chassis backs up a separate chassis
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I added up what this cost me.
And whilst it will wean me off some cloud storage, the recoup will be long, if ever.
Each 8T Ironwolf pro cost an average of just over £200. Four of those.
Each 22T cost an average of £440. Two of those.
The two chassis were bought in prime day, so a good but still not trivial price was paid.
“Just self-host” they say.
Did you look into recertified drives when pricing your Uber NAS?
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I added up what this cost me.
And whilst it will wean me off some cloud storage, the recoup will be long, if ever.
Each 8T Ironwolf pro cost an average of just over £200. Four of those.
Each 22T cost an average of £440. Two of those.
The two chassis were bought in prime day, so a good but still not trivial price was paid.
“Just self-host” they say.
@bloor There was a story I read a few days ago of someone who found it cheaper to fly to the US, buy the drives there, fly back and pay the import duty.
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Did you look into recertified drives when pricing your Uber NAS?
️@simonzerafa all hard drives are like hen’s teeth at the moment, so although I did find some remanufactured/recertified disks, they were almost entirely Seagate exos ones. And not the sizes I needed. Also, this whole shebang is intended to be all about “a safe place for my data” and so it maybe superstition but I’m sort of willing to pay a little bit more to achieve that [by buying new].
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@bloor There was a story I read a few days ago of someone who found it cheaper to fly to the US, buy the drives there, fly back and pay the import duty.
@penguin42 @bloor my most recent drive purchases were imported from France! 2x18T USB drives that I shucked instead of buying enterprise drives in the UK. Saved £150 *per drive*.
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@simonzerafa all hard drives are like hen’s teeth at the moment, so although I did find some remanufactured/recertified disks, they were almost entirely Seagate exos ones. And not the sizes I needed. Also, this whole shebang is intended to be all about “a safe place for my data” and so it maybe superstition but I’m sort of willing to pay a little bit more to achieve that [by buying new].
Well ...
Drives that are recertified are theoretically tested during that recertification process so possibly more likely not to fail early?
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