Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

[Bo-Erik Sandholm]

I have a freenas ZFS  instance based on low-cost components and ecc memory
and old 2 TB drives.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132097  MB 38usd

AMD Athlon 5350   2.05 GHz Quad core - 44usd

Memory 2*8GB ECC RAM

*http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239370_re=8gb_ecc_ddr3-_-20-239-370-_-Product

  2 * 44usd   *

*LSI controller from ebay*


*http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/252167113040?hlpht=true=true=1&_trkparms=clkid%3D4753282283497783251&_qi=RTM1763577

 around 100 usd  LSI disk contoller flashed to non raid v20 bios*

*Cabeling from aliexpress or ebay *

*SFF-8087* connectors, also known as *internal mini SAS*, or even
*iPASS* connectors.
Up to 4 SATA drives can be connected to such a connector with an SFF-8087
to 4xSATA *forward breakout cable*

*450 W power supply *

*And reuse of an old deskside enclosure.*

*Usb stick for the system to boot from, I will change to 32 gb low cost ssd
disk.*

*I use 8 * 2TB disks, but the disk controller support larger than 2 TB
disks. I think a new system using 4 or 5 larger disks might be more optimal
than the 8   2TBytes disks. *

*I will activate this server on crashplan for backup to the cloud
 - 
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/crashplan-update-failing-due-to-old-java-version.42300/
*
 Bo-Erik
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Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

[Courville, Daniel]

John Leonard wrote:

> anyone got any reasonably-priced suggestions for storage?

Once production is done, to save space, I FLAC everything (or WavPack it when 
it's more than eight channel or 24 bit).

- Daniel

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[Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

[John Leonard]

A question:

Most of my recording is now 4 four or six channel 96/24 and currently, I back 
up from the recorders to bare hard drives via an eSATA docking station, which 
means that I have an every-increasing pile of hard drives, as I back up every 
thing important twice. I’ve pretty much standardised on 2TB drives; a mixture 
of Seagate and Western Digital  (I keep telling myself that it’s cheaper than a 
reel of 1” Ampex 456, but at the rate that I’m piling the drives up, it’s still 
a bit daunting.) 

Although this system works pretty well, and I use DiskTracker to keep a record 
of what’s where, It does mean that I just have a shelf full of 3.5” hard 
drives, which is a) a bit messy and b) a bit of a risk. The cloud is an option 
- or at least it will be once I get my super-duper-whizzy even faster Virgin 
upgrade, but even at the current upload rate of 10 MB, a full drive takes days 
to upload and then it’s not exactly quick to get it back.

Given that I don’t have an educational establishment with huge servers, anyone 
got any reasonably-priced suggestions for storage?

Ta,

John


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