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submitted 7 months ago by GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

If you really want a setup with that many disks, you might look into Ceph. It's intended for handling stupidly huge amounts of data spread across multiple servers with self-healing and other nice features. (As the name suggests it's a bit of a tentacle monster though.) One of my colleagues set up a deployment at work. It took a while for him to figure out how to get it running well but it's been pretty useful.