We're all ok. I has a small electrical fire that burned a printer and cable modem. Well they both sat on top of my server cabinet and the molten plastic dripped on top of my unraid server. The heat, smoke, melted ink and plastic runniest everything but the USB stick and the drives.

 

So I have a open budget. I need to reduce the number of drives for a number of reasons so any suggestions on migrating data to 3tb drives. I have ~15tb of data and I want 20% more space to scale.

Parity is currently a 2tb drive. It's tone to move to 3 or greater. I do g see my self going through this again anytime soon.

 

So please let mr know what you think. I need a case, power supply, moboard, controllers (out of stock of 1015s and CPU. Don't be cheap. The insurance company is buying this. The insurance got an estimate from a data recovery company to salvage my server and got back to me with one option. Buy a new one. I guess Tve price to salvage and recover the sever was more than the cost of a new car.

Thank you in advance.

How much total space do you want?

 

You noted 15TB plus 20% = 18TB ... if that's enough then you could build a nice mini-ITX system that is very compact that holds 20TB.      I've built several of these using the Lian-Li PC-Q25B case, a Silverstone SFX power supply; Asus mini-ITX motherboard and i3 CPU ... they now have a Haswell version of the board, so it could be very current.    Pop in 6 4TB drives and you've got 20TB.

 

If 20TB isn't enough; or you simply want a rack-based unit, I'd just buy the one Limetech is selling now ... it's a very nice case, and you have 3 processor options -- they're all very good.    http://lime-technology.com/avs-104-server/

Since cost isn't an issue, you may as well get the Xeon-based unit 

 

... then just pop-in as many 4TB drives as you want => it holds 10, so you'll get 36TB of storage 

I cannot buy a system. I've got to build it from scratch. So the limetech option is out

How about migrating the parity to 3tb drive?  Any tip or tricks?

 

Is there a way to image the old drive and put on the 3tb drive? 

You can easily upgrade the parity to a new drive by simply replacing it.    But first, I'd get the new server put together and do a parity check on the current setup to confirm everything's really okay.    THEN I'd replace the parity drive.

 

It's interesting that the insurance company won't simply let you buy a replacement;  but stranger things have happened.    In that case, if you want a rack-based unit, you can still buy the Limetech case by itself.

 

Then just buy whatever motherboard/CPU/controllers you want (they could be the same ones Limetech would have used if you like) ... and simply put it all together.

 

If you don't want a rack-mounted unit, or if the 10-drive limit with the Limetech case is too small, what's the maximum number of drives you need to support?    Need that info -- and any particular restrictions you want on the case (i.e. rack-mounted; or dimensional restrictions) -- to make any good suggestions.

 

 

I guess Tve price to salvage and recover the sever was more than the cost of a new car.

Thank you in advance.

 

Don't let your insurance off easy. If you are building the new one charge them $250/hr for lots of hours. More than a new car!!

 

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If you're starting now, forget about 3TB and just go for the 4TB.

If you're starting now, forget about 3TB and just go for the 4TB.

 

I would go for 4TB!

As for the insurance this is my good will to help and save cash. However my patients are running out so that may change.

 

I have no problem going with a 4TB Parity drive. In fact I just decided that I'm doing it. Thank you for the help.

 

The next step is to reduce drive count to save real estate and carbon footprint. Any recommendations on a migration strategy to reduce drives?  I would like to replace the 1TB drives with 3's.  or what ever the best price point is for a WD red.

 

What parity drive model is the best these days?

 

Does the current build have driver support for the X9SCA on board controller?

 

Thanks again

 

 

If you are going with 4TB parity and like WD Red drives then just get the newly released 4TB Red.