Homemade "Storinator"

[louij2]

How would I go about making my own Storinator like server?

Would the costs be more?

[seagate_surfer]

This might be a good starting point as far as conceptualizing and getting an idea of the undertaking:

Open Source Storage Server (per BackBlaze)

As far as cost-comparison, talking pricing is something that is sort of a no-no for our team, so for guidance on that we will defer to the rest of the knowledgeable community here.

[knightslugger]

considering you'd have to make a custom SATA backplane and controller... yeah. it would be a LOT more expensive.

 

then there's fabrication. sheetmetal is cheap time consuming on your part.

[Jarsky]

How many drives do you want to hold? 

Do you want hot-swap functionality? 

What sort of array are you looking to implement? (e.g ZFS RaidZ2)

[Razor Blade]

4 hours ago, louij2 said:

How would I go about making my own Storinator like server?

Would the costs be more?

Depends... Are you looking to replicate one? Or are you looking to build something that is about as capable?

 

If the former:

Do you have free access to a full metal fabrication shop and someone that knows CAD?

 

If the ladder:

....pretty much the same as the former...unless you try to make one out of wood or something...which I completely recommend against doing.

[jde3]

6 hours ago, louij2 said:

How would I go about making my own Storinator like server?

Would the costs be more?

Maybe get an old Sun storage server off ebay. Make sure you get an x86 one. (or one that supports Solaris 10~)

 

Something like this? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-MicroSystems-SunFire-X4500-Server-No-HDDs/112915932041?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D44039%26meid%3D53ea6e0990d94006b68504a604a0680a%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D272605659065%26itm%3D112915932041&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

 

Buyer beware right? That is a 48 drive unit though.. the processors are old and weak and you'll need as much ram as you can get in it.. but it should do the trick at a fraction of the cost.

 

It's 64gigs max

Two dual core Opteron's.

Pretty sure that will take as large of drives and you want to fork out for. (They cite 2tb drives at 96tb of storage as max when it was sold)

It will run FreeBSD (FreeNAS also), Solaris, or Linux.

 

Nice damm deal really for $400. I want it.