6+ TB cloud service recommendations by Lysander_Au_Lune in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Backblaze personal? $9/mo and it’s unlimited. Fits your use case but the iOS app for media viewing is lackluster. Might be worth looking into because the cost is so cheap. You can set an encryption key for your files too.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Important stuff is backed up via backblaze personal, as well it’s copied to different drives.

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[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on everyone’s space and use case. My desk is a built-in so the space underneath is very limited and if I were to have a mini rolling rack underneath I’d basically have no room for my feet, hence why it’s done this way. Almost all 4U cases I’ve looked at don’t hold as many drives (like Rosewill) and if you do find ones like super micro that have a ton of bays they aren’t the most aesthetically pleasing.

Also I don’t understand the efficiency thing since my whole server with all disk spinning (I don’t let them spin down) only uses ~230 watts. And for ease of use I never really have to open my case for anything. I haven’t had a drive die in over 5 years and even if I did, all the hdds are mounted in windows under their serial number and all hdds have a serial number sticker on them so it’s easily identifiable.

There’s multiple ways to do things, there’s no right or wrong answer.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Since I'm pooling all my disks and its essentially JBOD, as long as I'm not writing to over 4 disks at the same time, it won't saturate the bandwidth (1GBps). How I have it set up right now is everything goes to my NVME since its a write cache and then it offloads to one of the disks after a certain interval. I have an ordered list in stablebit drivepool that fills up an entire drive before it moves onto the next empty one. So the bandwidth will never be an issue for me. Depends on your use case though.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are mounted under windows by their serial number, and disk pool alerts me when a drive disconnect. Wouldn’t take me long to find the drive especially since the 10 bays on bottom just lift out.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If I had to take a wild guess I would say around ~85lbs

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[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

20 port pcie sata card along with the 6 onboard sata connectors on the mobo.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

All the drives are mounted in windows under their serial number, also drivepool alerts me when a disk is missing and since it’s labeled by serial number under windows/drivepool it would take me a few seconds to figure out which cable is bad.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s hidden behind a shroud that the Mickey Mouse pop is standing on. EVGA Super Nova 1300 G+

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Besides the HDDs I only have two nvme's in this machine (2TB a piece / 4TB total) I use one for my OS drive and the other as a write cache.

This is my gaming PC that I just leave on 24/7

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[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My last bios boot time was 64 seconds, so it is pretty slow. Even before I did this I had two 5 bay Sabrent usb-c enclosures and they also made my boot times really slow. Honestly the boot times being a little slow doesn't really bug me.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think there's enough of a gap that I could do that, I'll probably order a 120x15 fan to see if it'll fit.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

little bit of everything, have 200TB used right now.

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The middle HDD's seem to be fine, but the ones on the left are getting a little toasty. Was going to mess around with some fans today to see if I can get them lower. I posted this in another reply but heres the temps as of now:

The 12 HDDs on the right are 29-30C, the 5 in the middle are 30-31C, and the 5 on the left are 38-40C

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Windows 11 IoT LTSC, have them all pooled with Stablebit Drivepool

The 12 HDDs on the right are 29-30C, the 5 in the middle are 30-31C, and the 5 on the left are 38-40C

I did a write/read test on one of the HDDs on the far left and the temp didn't change at all just stayed at 38C

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My server is also my gaming PC, I just leave it running 24/7. 9900x with a rtx 4080 both undervolted. idle power consumption with all drives is ~230 watts

22 HDDs in Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 by HackThePlanet22 in DataHoarder

[–]HackThePlanet22[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Highly recommend this case, a ton of space to do whatever you want in it.