40TB Raid1 Storage Server

[xdriyad]

I'm planning on building a 20/20TB raid1 server for storing video footage of my production. I'm looking for a budget method to get it done. I hope people of LTT will give me a good solution.

[brob]

Get a 4 bay NAS and four 10TB or 12TB NAS rated hdd. Use RAID 10. Asustor, WD, Qnap, Synology and others offer various models.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Budget?

 

Why raid 1?

 

What network connection?

 

OS?

[xdriyad]

I'm thinking about using any Linux server OS, the budget is a mid-range budget. Actually, I'll determine after I get the list of components are necessary. Raid 1 because I want to have a double backup for the files. if there something else that  I can do please suggest me. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, xdriyad said:

I'm thinking about using any Linux server OS, the budget is a mid-range budget. Actually, I'll determine after I get the list of components are necessary. Raid 1 because I want to have a double backup for the files. if there something else that  I can do please suggest me. 

RAID 1 is not a back. You still need a backp for raid, so get a tape system, cloud storage, or anouther nas for backups.

 

Whats mid range? For this amount of storage, your probably thinking about 3-5k depending on speed.

 

Id really look at a premade nas, easy to use and they work well.

[xdriyad]

rough idea: 

4TB storage x 10

Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming WIFI-BK

Intel Core i7-5820K 3.60 GHz 

MEMORY DDR3- 16GB

 

I was thinking about somewhat this configuration, Is there any other way around from which I can achieve the same goal? 

[brob]

4 hours ago, xdriyad said:

rough idea: 

4TB storage x 10

Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming WIFI-BK

Intel Core i7-5820K 3.60 GHz 

MEMORY DDR3- 16GB

 

I was thinking about somewhat this configuration, Is there any other way around from which I can achieve the same goal? 

10 hdd units means 10 times more likely to experience an error. The motherboard has 8 SATA III ports and RAID 1 can only be used on six or two connectors, not all eight.

 

Are the drives designed for use in RAID arrays?

 

RAID array, other than level 0, are intended to minimize downtime when there is a storage unit failure. They are not backup and do not eliminate the need for good backup. 

 

While available resources do tend to dictate budget, one should also take into account the actual cost of hard failure. Knowing that allows one to decide on the level of hardware reliability one should afford.

 

I would suggest something along the following lines.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Seagate - IronWolf 12TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($407.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Seagate - IronWolf 12TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($407.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Seagate - IronWolf 12TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($407.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Seagate - IronWolf 12TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($407.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Other: QNAP TS-431X2-2G-US High-performance Quad-core Business NAS with Built-in 10 GbE SFP+ Port ($480.00 @ Newegg)
Total: $2111.96
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-09 10:18 EDT-0400

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 hours ago, xdriyad said:

rough idea: 

4TB storage x 10

Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming WIFI-BK

Intel Core i7-5820K 3.60 GHz 

MEMORY DDR3- 16GB

 

I was thinking about somewhat this configuration, Is there any other way around from which I can achieve the same goal? 

Get fewer biffer drives

 

That motherboard and cpu wont fix.

 

CPU is way overkill for a nas.

 

Id just get a box like this, and some 8-12tb hdds.

https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-DS1817-8GB-Diskless/dp/B06Y4TJL54/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1528578082&sr=1-1&keywords=1817%2B&dpID=31KSlG-5KhL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

 

 

[Salacious B Crum]

16 hours ago, xdriyad said:

I'm planning on building a 20/20TB raid1 server for storing video footage of my production. I'm looking for a budget method to get it done. I hope people of LTT will give me a good solution.

Do you have any network knowledge the used server grade market is a good buy and cheap then fill it with your favorite drives and your off. My unRAID server cost the price of the drives and a pre-built rig I had lying around the license for $59 for a basic one that would give you 1 10TB parity 4 10TB data for a total of 40TB of storage and you have 1 slot open for either another parity drive, data drive or in my case a cache drive so any recent pre-built would/should easily support your needs it is linux based so you will need at least some understanding but it has been working great for me