Can anyone estimate how much money would I spend for 150TB storage of hard drives? Like the minimum money (if i buy these hard drives in sale) and maximum money ( if i buy these hd in undiscounted price)?
Do you recommend doubling this 150TB to save trouble from corruption/hd failures? Thank you in advance.
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Ready through the Wiki, it will answer many questions. Depending on where you live (USA/EU) drives can go for $11-17 per TB on sale. Then you should also think about parity aka a RAID5, RAID6 in case a drive breaks down. There are plenty of guides when you Google this.
Plus you’d need to buy the hardware CPU, memory, case but this all depends on your use case. Archival storage vs video editing. Homeserver with lots of virtualization or simple data storage. You get the gist.
You will not get a good answer here with a general question like this. Do you research, find your use case, ask detailed answers.
Just multiply 15x150, most OSes have a calculator, there are also some online (even google would do it if you feed it directly) ? That’s the thumb rule, both in US dollars and in Euros.
You didn’t say where you live and what budget you have. What solution do you want to plan, what HW etc. So I assume you live in Europe, amazon.de, going shuking, you would need 10x18TB drives for 292€ each, total 2920€. Then you can arrange it on RAID 5 and get 162TB, RAID 6 and get 144TB, or unRaid with double parity and get 144TB.
I just Google on amazon.de and do some basic math. It didn’t take too much.
So it depends in how many individual drives you want it, I am from NL so that’s where I draw reference from.
The lowest $/TB I have seen have been on 18TB drives new(HC550’s) which had an insane deal for 200 euros a piece(For new drives with warranty etc this is basically an insane deal), which means it’s 11.1 Euro/TB so the cheapest way to do that assuming you do raid0(so 0 redudancy if 1 drive fails you lose everything) it would be 9 of these drives(162TB).
So assuming you don’t want 0 redudancy I would say on an array of 9 drives you would do(depending on what your focus is on you would alter how many vdevs etc) 2 drives of parity(raidz2 assuming your using ZFS/RAID6 in others), which would mean it would put you to 11 drives which would at this “best price” would be 2200.
Generally the best no deal price I have seen is around 300 euro per 18TB drive,so assuming you do that deal the no redudancy array would cost you 2700, and the array with 2 drives of parity would cost you 3300.
Do realise this is dutch pricing, which might vary widely from where your from. And this is buying new and you can generally find recertified drives cheaper while not necesarrily being worse.
Same question as airbornearie. Where can I find new 18tb drives for that price. I would say they are either not new, refurbished drives or the 21% btw (vat) was not included in the price
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There’s a $260 per 20TB HDD from Newegg right now.
It’s insane how it’s constantly this low