I want to build a proper server with room for 40+ HDDs to move my media server to and have RAID 1. I know a lot about PCs and software, but when it comes to server hardware I have no clue what I’m doing. How would I go about building a server that has access to 40+ RAID 1’d HDDs?

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    40-drive RAID is moving out of homelab territory and pretty deep into enterprise storage systems.

    Do you already have these 40 drives or are you spacing out a new NAS from scratch?

    If it’s from scratch I’d first see if I could get it down to 20 or 24 larger drives to allow the whole thing to fit in a single 4U rackmount case.

    Bigger than that and you’re probably stuck with proprietary NAS hardware to link together multiple racks.