12TB storage
- Thread starter Bozo
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You could probably build a setup just like that for less than $2200. The Hitachi 3TB drives are about $190/each ($760) leaving you with $1440 to build a small little PC to manage them and likely keep a 5th 3TB HD running as a hot spare.
ddrueding
Fixture
I've just got a bunch of drives sitting on my desk with some USB fans blowing over them. I'm sure I spent less than $2200 
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I looked at the price and at the color and I tought it was made by Apple.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
To be fair, the non-"enterprise class" version is $1000 cheaper. The only difference I saw was a 3 year warranty on the standard model and 5 year warranty on the enterprise model. If you bought your own drives and parts you'd be lucky to get more than a year warranty on any of the parts beyond the HDDs. That makes the cost of the enclosure closer to $450.
Although you could just buy one of these sans-digital (seems to be a terrible translation to me) external enclosure for ~ $150 . Probably cheaper than trying to build something from scratch.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'd bet it doesn't support 3TB drives correctly.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
maybe, unfortunately I don't have any spare 3TB drives to test. I do have a sans-digital enclosure (port expander/backplane only model) I need to setup.
