Love the jank setup at the start. Lots of interesting decisions made. Like the hard drives mounted to the top of the pc case that a smart move if over heating isn’t a problem. Seen people do stuff with a Lego tower holding HDDs when space runs out.
I don't know why it's so hard to find a PC case that A. has lots of HDD slots and B. doesn't cost a fortune. Never thought of Lego, that's a neat idea!
You can definitely save some money on eBay, and it can be an excellent deal, but you have to be careful that the seller is reputable and fully test the drives before using. Smaller drives - ya, power consumption is definitely a factor. But if you organize your data well, you can let the unused ones spin down most of the time. I run my RAID 1 cache drives constantly, but the actual large array is spun down nearly all the time. HDD standby power is extremely low. I got hit on the upgrade though - because the new drive cage uses 100+ watts, just to be powered up, in addition to the drives that are spun up. My standpoint is that I don't want to put heavy wear on my "expensive" hard drives. I have a couple 8TB drives that are used for backups. The cheap low capacity drives run daily, using 2 disk parity in UNRAID. The important data is backed up to the 8TB archive semi-regularly. I try to keep the running hours down on the 8TB ones, so I only use for backups. Data that isn't very critical I don't necessarily backup to the 8TB ones, and just trust the 2 disk parity to save me. Regardless which drives you get, I would highly recommend at least one brand new HDD big enough to fit all your critical data for a backup. Unless your data isn't critical, don't put your trust fully into the array, because the array is susceptible to both multi-disk failure and malware attacks. Also, if you buy all the same size drives upfront, you could potentially use FreeNAS/TrueNAS and save the cost of an UNRAID license. If you plan to mix/match sizes or add drives down the road, then UNRAID might be worth the cost.
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Love the jank setup at the start. Lots of interesting decisions made. Like the hard drives mounted to the top of the pc case that a smart move if over heating isn’t a problem. Seen people do stuff with a Lego tower holding HDDs when space runs out.
I don't know why it's so hard to find a PC case that A. has lots of HDD slots and B. doesn't cost a fortune. Never thought of Lego, that's a neat idea!
You can definitely save some money on eBay, and it can be an excellent deal, but you have to be careful that the seller is reputable and fully test the drives before using.
Smaller drives - ya, power consumption is definitely a factor. But if you organize your data well, you can let the unused ones spin down most of the time. I run my RAID 1 cache drives constantly, but the actual large array is spun down nearly all the time. HDD standby power is extremely low. I got hit on the upgrade though - because the new drive cage uses 100+ watts, just to be powered up, in addition to the drives that are spun up.
My standpoint is that I don't want to put heavy wear on my "expensive" hard drives. I have a couple 8TB drives that are used for backups. The cheap low capacity drives run daily, using 2 disk parity in UNRAID. The important data is backed up to the 8TB archive semi-regularly. I try to keep the running hours down on the 8TB ones, so I only use for backups. Data that isn't very critical I don't necessarily backup to the 8TB ones, and just trust the 2 disk parity to save me.
Regardless which drives you get, I would highly recommend at least one brand new HDD big enough to fit all your critical data for a backup. Unless your data isn't critical, don't put your trust fully into the array, because the array is susceptible to both multi-disk failure and malware attacks.
Also, if you buy all the same size drives upfront, you could potentially use FreeNAS/TrueNAS and save the cost of an UNRAID license. If you plan to mix/match sizes or add drives down the road, then UNRAID might be worth the cost.