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Originally Posted by General Maximus
what do you use your array for and what is the cumulative capacity. I am genuinely curious because when I get my new NAS I'll have about 31TB of storage altogether which I thought was a bit OTT.
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I use it for... well... Storage. The main array is a 76TB array in triple-parity mode giving 64TB usable. Backup storage is a 25TB array.
Aside from the usual suspects (movies, porn, other downloaded warez) it also stores backups of most of my machines, and my own photo/video collection. And several dozen virtual machines I can't be bothered going through before deleting.
I also used to do a lot of freelance data recovery work and imaging four or five 500GB-1TB drives at a time, plus extra space to store the data recovered off them...
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
My N54 is very quiet. It is no louder than a PVR, no-one notices it. I don't work in a noisy environment so would notice a loud bit of kit and do when I fire Big Daddy Dell up.
No idea what would require that amount of storage. I use less than 3TB across all devices including 1TB devoted to lab/VMs. I guess video content, that's the usual suspect. Odd as it may sound given it is me nearly all of my video content is on its original Blu Rays or is streamed. I am not a big TV watcher.
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The storage I "need" these days is probably closer to about 10TB. 2-3TBs are my own photo/video collection, as a photographer I'm pretty lazy and shoot everything in maximum quality RAW+JPEG so a single image (which my camera takes 5 per second of) is 30MB. I sometimes shoot as many as 2000 a day and over a decade it adds up...
Also my camera's hacked to record HD video at 200Mbps which probably doesn't help.
Do I "require" any of it? Probably not, given the number of times I've had a drive/memory card fail and lose hundreds of gigabtyes of hugely important data, yet I'm still alive...
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Add on top music, then all the windows and linux iso's, VM backups, home video backups, lossless music samples for creating music etc and space can easily get taken.
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Music is probably the one thing that really needs to be on storage, since I play my whole music collection on shuffle all day every day. Changing CDs every 3 minutes would be a PITA.
Movies/Blu-Rays etc. I tend to find I only ever watch once, if I ever watch it again it's several years later, it could probably be better off/cheaper in a WORM tape archive. Or just on disk, in which case I'd have to to stop being lazy and actually insert a disk once every few weeks...