TakMan

I generally want a server with a rather average network infrastructure, a 24TB drive bay and i dont really care how much space it would take up I've seen prices from a speicalist ranging from £11000 to about £25000, but servers really aren't my area :lol: what would you say?

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the_beast

What's it for?

If it is for home use, build your own. You will save a fortune.

If it is for commercial use, the warranty replacement options are at least as important as the hardware, and this is often much of the price difference between different systems. There is no 'average' price...

gorb

dunno how much these components would cost in the uk, but 67TB server for $8000USD
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01...cloud-storage/

DuckieHo

You need to be more specific.

An enterprise system can easily pay £100,000-£300,000 for 24TB of HDD based storage. A home built server could pay just £2000-2500.

The "average" is somewhere between those two numbers.

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ComGuards

Jeez, 24TB? With that much storage, I'd probably be looking at iSCSI storage units rather than dumping it all in a single server box.

In fact, I'd probably end up getting multiple "light" front-end servers connected to an iSCSI SAN, a heckuvalot more redundancy.

assaulth3ro911

Dude buy the blackblaze for 8k USD from BlackBlaze. It's the only way to go

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ComGuards

If you're going to quote a product from a company, at least check before you post. I'm pretty damn sure you mean "Backblaze".

the_beast

Do Backblaze even sell their servers?

And even if they did, I would not stick my data on one for all the tea in china. Syba and Addonics cards, connected to port multipliers? With Seagate 7200.11s held in with rubber bands? No thanks.

LiNERROR

24TB of usable? or actual? you could do that with 12 2TB cards and a 12 port version of the 1680ix areca sata/sas controller... about $5000 for a decent case/psu/mobo/ram etc... either i7-920 with 6gb or a nice entry level xeon... all depends on what you're going to use it for... but that areca card can push a GByte/s no problem... so if you need to get all that in and out, you'll want something a little more powerful than gigabit networking... either pair multiple gigabit links... or go fiber...

you can squeeze 40TB into a rather standard large full tower case like the stacker 810... without anything fancy and with only taking up a single pci-e 8x+ slot...

basically what i'm going for, and this is not my fileserver :P

their units are not for performance and are not standalone... i would rather have their case and do it my way... because those 46 drives would fit nicely on 2 24-port controllers... i would also use one large redundant psu...


i just want to know why the WD 2TB drives are still so damned expensive...

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ComGuards

Because there's nothing bigger than the WD 2TB yet? =P

I've got too much of an "enterprise" mind... Kind of lost that whole "DIY" mindset over the past couple of years where fly-by-duct-tape-datacenters don't work, lol; where there's *real* money to be spent with the servers and storage =D.

Anyways, personally, if money was no object, I'd be upgrading to a full rack infrastructure... and dumping in a couple of expandable iSCSI storage units in... But again, that's "enterprise" me. Actually starting to get a little concerned about my current storage setup. I have 26TB over the network, but not all of it is redundant... and managing shared drives is starting to become a pain in the a$$.