<delurks> Hereabouts we are very enamored of the 4 disk FreeNAS Mini appliance, which is a hardware+software solution that includes ZFS. Michael </delurks> --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours? From: "Ben Bloomberg" <b...@mit.edu> Date: 4/15/16 1:02 pm To: "Surround Sound discussion group" <sursound@music.vt.edu>
An HP Microserver with FreeNAS is a great way to get a ZFS cluster running. ZFS is a great filesystem for archiving media. I have machines running pools ranging from 500GB to 144TB. They can scale and grow really easily. You can run pretty nicely with a cheap i3 CPU and a decent LSI HBA. A 16 TB system might be in the ballpark of $2000. $400 - case $900 - disks $700 - RAM, CPU, Motherboard, etc... It could be much cheaper, but I like to do server grade components. ZFS has Raid z which does parity across multiple disks. Ben On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:09 PM, John Leonard <j...@johnleonard.uk> wrote: > 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 > > > Please note new email address & direct line phone number > email: j...@johnleonard.uk > phone +44 (0)20 3286 5942 > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160415/489ba5f3/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160415/264619c6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
