Specs are slightly in flux right now, but basically it’s an HP ML310e Gen 8, with a random HDD cage on top for 4 additional drives, and a bunch of fans zip tied to the front to cool the 6 internal drives. Oh, and a little 7" display stuck to the side which I’ll get a stats readout on soon.

Xeon E3-1220 v3, 32GB ECC RAM, 40TB array, Quadro M2000.

It’s running Unraid and I use it as a media server (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr) as well as a backup for my music and video production, and general stuff (NextCloud, Photoprism).

The machine itself is so stupid and hacked together, built entirely from used parts I got cheap on ebay. It’s probably cost me £300 max, all in.

  • DrunkenHarold@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    Does anyone have tips on how to source large capacity hard drives on the cheap? I was a silly and didn’t set my storage to be redundant and I’m trying to rectify that.

    • randombullet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      I’ve bought about 600tb from server part deals.

      Just got 20tb drives for about 250ish. Higher than what I wanted to pay, however $12.5/TB is good enough for me.

      • DrunkenHarold@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        Really now? Whereabouts are you looking for deals like that? Are there any limitations concerning sas drives, other than the different connection? Can they be pooled with SATA drives?

        I should probably google all of this haha

        • NoughtE@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          2 年前

          I just grab them off ebay. SAS drives are almost exclusively used in enterprise servers, so there’s fuck all demand for them on the used market. Buy a cheap PCIe SAS controller card and you’re good to go.

          I use Unraid which doesn’t care at all about what types of drives you use, so you can mix and match into one huge array. I have 8x SAS and 2x SATA drives in one array.