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It's an iXsystems Mini R box, 160TB of raw storage, ZFS raided to 100TB. That's actually not much these days, you can buy 30TB individual hard drives now, 20TB ones are cheap.

TrueNAS has been pretty good, though I only use a fraction of its features.
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0xtr 1y ago

Damn, Im jealous of that setup. What kind of harddrives would you recommend? I have three 4TB WD REDs atm which has worked pretty good for 5 years by now

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Johnathan Corgan 1y ago

Same here--it's all WD Red Pro drives.

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0xtr 1y ago

Would you mind explaining a bit about the raid setup?

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Johnathan Corgan 1y ago

If you're not familiar with ZFS, it has a variety of disk redundancy options, equivalent to the traditional RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, and 7, but done in software and integrated into the filesystem instead of using a hardware controller. It basically boils down to a tradeoff between how much storage space you want to sacrifice to redundancy and how many drives can fail simultaneously.

RAIDZ2, for example, allows two drives to fail without data loss (while you go replace those drives!)