At Home Large Storage Problem

[brandon1652]

Hi Everyone,

 

I am new to posting on this forum, although I regularly read here. Please, (mods) if I have posted in the wrong place move this topic, or if my question has been addressed well, point me in the correct direction.

 

I currently have 21 3Tb Seagate Barracuda (now Desktop) drives plus a variety of others. The 3Tb drives are the ones I use for my central storage and back up. The other drives are odds and ends as far as storage.

 

The current configuration is that I have 14 drives as primary storage using Drivepool and two Mediasonic Proboxes. I like drivepool for the fact that it uses the drives already formatted to NTFS and I can just grab a drive out of the array and read it elsewhere. The other 7 drives serve as an offsite backup. Again the volume is a Drivepool volume.

 

Most of the data on the drives is mainly media, and not changed, but accessed regularly and by multiple users possibly at once. I have about 2Tb of data that is accessed and changed frequently.

 

I would like to upgrade to a case/rack unit which can handle all the drives (excluding offsite backup). Another concern is that I produce/recieve about 100Gbs a week and I have to regularly buy new HDs. For the upgrade I was considering a Norco unit and using ZFS. I would prefer a standard PC case that I can easily convert to a standalone server and duplicate as needed. I don't necessarily want to build a large server rack in my home.

 

Suggestion?