{"id":103,"date":"2011-04-11T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp2\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-06-10T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T17:35:00","slug":"what-16tb-raw-space-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/what-16tb-raw-space-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What 16TB raw space looks like at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking for some home backup solutions over the past couple of months. This has led me down both the do-it-yourself route and buying a ready-made solution.<\/p>\n

One of my requirements was that I wanted the solution to be more than just storage – otherwise I would have purchased a straight NAS box from the likes of Qnap, Netgear or if feeling rich Drobo. Most of these dedicated NAS boxes can be “rooted” to allow ssh access , however their CPUs are generally underpowered for general purpose use.<\/p>\n

Other requirements were that I wanted a reasonably small form factor and to be able to use at least 4 SATA hard drives, preferably with hot swap ability. Hardware raid was not a requirement because I intended on using a Linux distribution with mdadm software raid.<\/p>\n

In the end, I ended up building two boxes.
\nThe first, a home build, based on the CFI A7879 chassis<\/a>\u00a0\"CFI_A7879_1\"<\/a>with a Gigabyte GA-D525TUD Dual Core Atom Mini-ITX Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GA-D525TUD\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The second was a off-the-shelf HP ProLiant Microserver<\/a> which, to be brutally honest, was because HP were offering \u00a3100 cashback<\/a> deal on it. This made the server much cheaper than you could possibly build yourself from components.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\"HP_Microserver\"<\/a><\/div>\n
I added 4GB ram to each box (total 5GB in the HP box because it comes with 1GB).The CFI boot drive is a 8GB (30MB\/sec) CompactFlash card mounted as an
\nIDE drive. The HP boot drive is a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer USB stick.<\/p>\n

Finally added 4 x 2TB Samsung F4EG HD204UI drives to each box.<\/p>\n

The CFI box has 8TB in RAID5 providing 5.4TB usable. The HP has 8TB in RAID6 providing 3.6TB usable space.<\/p>\n

If there is more interest, I’ll write up the build process is more detail with pictures.<\/p>\n

For now – here are some shots of my utility shelf.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_20110411_173740\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’ve been looking for some home backup solutions over the past couple of months. This has led me down both the do-it-yourself route and buying a ready-made solution. One of my requirements was that I wanted the solution to be more than just storage – otherwise I would have purchased a straight NAS box from … <\/p>\n

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