Budget Storage Server 2021! | 80TB NAS

SMR drives pretty much limit you to UnRaid which is a pity. As you said, you never know what you're going to get when you shuck drives. My preferred option is renewed drives and currently Amazon has Seagate Exos 16TB in a 4 pack for $699 (they were $800 for about 8 months). You could have bought 8 16TB CMR drives for a little less than your shucked SMR drives and gotten a total raw capacity of 128TB rather than 80. Because these would be CMR drives you could choose any kind of redundant drive array like ZFS or RAID 6 and that means any OS like TrueNAS Scale or Core, ProxMox, Linux, BSD, Windows, or even UnRaid.

Now before you poo-poo renewed drives I've been using them for almost 2 decades as a Network Admin. I started using them back when 1TB was a large size. This was when Seagate had THE worst failure rate in the world. WE had about 70 of them in our playout storage server (at the TV Station). When a BRAND NEW drive would fail we'd warranty it and get a renewed drive back. They were no worse or no better than the new ones. Than came Hitachi 2TB, 4TB, 6TB and 8TB and these drives were great. I started buying renewed during the Hitachi days because they just didn't fail. Even BackBlaze reported them as being the least failure prone. And then Hitachi became part of WD. So I switched back to Seagate and their EXOS line.

I've built storage servers, backup storage servers and shared storage servers (for content sharing) with renewed drives. My last major build with them used (16) Seagate Exos 16TB drives in a pair of 2U Dell R730xd chassis (12 front hot swap, 4 internal hot swap) in 2020. Not a single drive out of the 32 has failed.

I also used 10 of these same type renewed Seagate Exos 16TB in my home server for 160TB of RAW (128TB RAID 6) in a 4U hotswap case. I also built this server in 2020. It started at 80TB but then I've expanded the array twice. Again, not a single drive failure. I also have an older storage server build that I use for my Blue Iris cameras. Again, built in a 4U case but using Hitachi 6TB renewed drives from 2012. Again, not a single failure.

One last data point here. I live in Nashville and I do not use AC. The servers in my home rack are only cooled by fans, both the internal server fans but also house fans. Temps last week were close to 100 ambient, and I'm sure the server rack was hotter. At one point my 10GB switch decided it didn't want to play until I moved in some extra cooling but the drives, just kept on spinning.

So don't be afraid of renewed drives.

you had 64tb

This video is almost an oxymoron. It's titled "Budget Storage Server", but then you go on to say that you spent at least $125 dollars for each of your ten 80TB of Seagate storage which alone came out to at least $1,250 + the additional $300 in other parts with a total of $1,500. Then you have plenty of other people making NAS servers for under 10x the amount you spent.🤦🏻‍♂🤦🏻‍♂

Btw you can turn any full size old computer case into this, no need to blow 1500😊

Why u'd spend th0usands f0r a persnal cl0ud and still pay f0r 0nline service t0 run it?? This guy is like a marketing guy f0r them 0n the cheap...l0l

Thanks for posting

Superb build! Inspired by this , I built one with a B250 motherboard, 500W power supply, a 1T Samsung SSD as WIN 10 with 7X8T WD drives into a small desktop casing.

thank you for sharing ur build experience ✅✅..

*watches video for potential Chia mining builds*

Uh oh

What is your power consumption?

Great video!

good luck getting your data back with smr when your raid fails

i would use sada ssd’s

Oh wow. That was the very same motherboard I bought in my 1st RAID server build. I ended up installing the Tyan mobo (Tyan S5512WGM2NR) in a 24 bay Norco case yes it only has 14 ports (6 sata and 8 SAS - LSI embedded 9211 SAS controller) I just connect it up a 28 port HP SAS expander. Not a bad mobo - up to 32G ECC

Throw a 10gb Mellanox card in there and this would be a perfect setup. I would use different drives, but nice job.

well Chia is dead so there are plenty of cheap drives out there 😆

How about SAN for virtualization storage?

I use a Dell PowerEdge T710 with 2x Intel Xeon 5500 CPU's, with 288GB RAM, and 8x 8TB Sata drives, and 2x redundant PSU's, 7 of the drives are set at RAID 5, using the Dell's internal Perc Controller software, and 1 standalone for the OS, the OS is headless Ubuntu Server, utilizing SAMBA for file sharing on the network, I don't need it to be a NAS, as Ubuntu Server does just as good using SAMBA shares, then I just create folders on the server for things like documents, pics, music, images, and video, and create Windows shares to those folders, and all I do then is to use the 'Network' icon in windows to map a drive letter to those shares and voila, windows explorer sees those mapped drives and I can just copy over the entire contents of my Documents, Videos, Music, and Images folders from Windows to each of those drive letters, and when saving from an application, I just browse to the right folder and save to it.

I was lucky that I advertised on freecycle for servers, working or not, and obtained the Dell server for free, and it had everything there but the HD's, it even has a working tape drive, but I don't have any tapes for it.

So, my question is, why did this person in the video spend something like $1500 for a NAS to build? When there are other servers out there, that can be got either for a few $100 or free, and that would be needed would be the HD's.

And, why use it as a NAS, unless you're in a huge company, and everyone has a portion of the NAS for their backups, but as an individual, a NAS isn't necessary, whereas Ubuntu Server with SAMBA works just as efficient as a NAS.

Hello Matt... I am from India and cannot afford costly laptops/computers such as Workstations. I am looking for a store in USA which sells quality refurbished / used electronics. could you pls help with the store names so that I can check out... Thanks in Advance.

Cool build. My home build server is over two times the machine. It has dual CPUs, 12 cores, and 24 threads. 96 gigs of ram. 18 hard drives with space for 12 more. The major issue is not the power. It costs 45 dollars a month for electricity. The problem is the heat. It sucks when you have to turn on the AC when it is only 50 degrees F outside. On top of that, rack-mounted hardware sucks in a house. I am building a new NAS/VM server. It is going to be way more power efficient and small form factor.

All those Barracudas gave me a heart attack 💀

That server better than some gaming pc

How many gigabytes of child porn do you have on this beast.

How much storage do you need

>Seagate
Day ruined

view in 1.5 x thank me later

Noisy solution...

Note to self:
Try avoiding SMR drives ( poor re-writtting performance )

Ну, так-то 72.7ТB на самом деле, а не 80

So I'm a noob too could this be used as like a plex, minecraft, or emulation server?

Definitely a great value for the money, but with a single PSU, that's not actually a server.

What is your desk Matt (with that pinouts)

I would not have taken Brracuda Compute drives. I've had multiple of those fail in a system i was assigned to take care of, after a significantly shorter time frame than other drives, being toshiba and seagate NAS drives and seagate Exos.

I have a nas, but now that my network is 10GB nas are super expensive

What are you doing for backup?

One quick question. Is it safe/okay to use this kind of solution for storing photographs for 30 years?
Or buy google drive storage?

I got a supermicro Boi with an 8 thread xeon for the lowdie

Thank you low income help alot

Is that storage permanent?

Only 80TB?? Thats sound exhausting. I have 128+ TB

Spanish please 😢

Stay away from Synology NAS, I have one and it instantly corrupts all RAR files that are copied to it!

Never go green hard drives they are terrible go red.

Military stuff

I already have a couple of Synology NAS's for storage. I need a cheap high-core count server for a Hypervisor though.

"the ssd is not secured right now, but i will mount it properly in the future"
and then you never opened that server again...