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adnanchow

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Hello guyz,

I am planing to ready a new system having 30/40 TB hard disk . I want some important suggestion about my system design.

My Choise:
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Intel Core i 7- ???

Mainboard: Intel???

Memory- ???
 
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ittimjones

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go w/ i7 and a high end ASRock mobo or ASUS or Gigabyte or other highly rated system. How are you planning to connect all that storage? what size disks? i'm thinking you'll need expansion cards for extra SATA ports. Also, prly lots of RAM, at least 16GB.

What is the system for?

I would recommend like RAID 5 for parity and speed most system's don't support anything higher.

is this going to be a server? then you should think server mobo. Also, AMD's are notorious for handing virtualization and multi-threaded applications better than Intel (having up to 8 physical cores and lots of cache)
 
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I'm running a file server in my household that I've very pleased with using Unraid. The software itself costs quite a bit compared to other NAS brands (Who, in fact seem to be free) although for some reason I just prefer it.

I myself am only running an 18TB server (I'll buy more HDDs as I need more space, prices are always going down!) and 8GB ram has been far too much at this point, I only use ~ 500MB on real memory, the other 7.5GB is just used for caching random pieces of data.

One thing I will recommend is get IPMI, it's amazing, makes running headless so easy, however, for the real specifications I can't help you as this is the storage subforum and that's all I really know.
 
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TenPc

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A 30 or 40 TB hard disk (actually, I've never heard of them) would take some to to boot up,

Sorry, I really don't have a clue, just wanted to add my reply so I get other replies sent to my inbox so I can follow the results.
 
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popatim

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30/40 TB drives is going to be the problem. I don't know of any 3+TB drives rated for use in raid5 or 6 so that leaves 15 to 20 drives at 2 TB each. 20 drives is going to get expensive. Twenty RE4's would be $2500 and then a 24 drive drivebay alone is... ouch.
 
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TenPc

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Well, that is what I was thinking. There are 4TB available for about $1000 each and 10 x 4TB @$1000 each is a fair whack of moolah ($40,000 US).

"Toshiba storage breakthrough could bring 10TB HDDs" -
(a report dated 18 Augus (2010)
http://www.techspot.com/news/40005-toshiba-storage-breakthrough-could-bring-10tb-hdds.html
Here is a 10TB system, but it's external which you'd want, anyhow. -
http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/140316/HARD_DRIVE_-_EXTERNAL_NAS_DESKTOP_DRIVES/LaCie/301525AS.asp


I just didn't say anything because the OP was talking about one 30/40 TB hard drive (singular).
 
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