Ok ... I know that unRAID can't handle this many drives ... but check out this case ...  :o

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811165317

 

 

for that kind of money i can buy a lot of Norco cases. great looking case, but a little too much for me.

for that kind of money i can buy a lot of Norco cases. great looking case, but a little too much for me.

 

Agreed ... I'm just astounded by the sheer size of the thing.

I've never seen a case quite like that before.

 

 

for that kind of money i can buy a lot of Norco cases. great looking case, but a little too much for me.

 

kingpin - hoping this goes on sale for you so you can build the biggest unRAID server ever!

 

:D

it would be fun to build, but i can't imagine the power consumption. and not only that, but unraid doesn't support that many drives. i would much rather see support for 3TB drives before support for additional drives. I really don't even need 3TB support yet, i still have 400 and 500GB drives in my system.

I bet you could fit 2 boards inside and make 2 independent servers.

it would be fun to build, but i can't imagine the power consumption. and not only that, but unraid doesn't support that many drives. i would much rather see support for 3TB drives before support for additional drives. I really don't even need 3TB support yet, i still have 400 and 500GB drives in my system.

 

Your initial post just made me chuckle.  Sounded like, if the price were right, you'd be in for one!

 

I'd be on the couch for life if I brought that in my house, even if it were free!

3 fans?  Your hard drives would fry.  It's impressive to look at, but who would buy it?  For that kind of money, I would think you could get something with much better use of space.  They make 4U 60 drive JBOD enclosures (granted, maybe not for $4,199). 

 

It would be fun to build though, and it would keep you warm in the winter 

Why would unraid need any special changes to handle 3 TB drives?

Why would unraid need any special changes to handle 3 TB drives?

 

There are actually two issues to overcome. First, these drives use advanced formatting, aka 4k sectors. Secondly, because unRAID is a 32 bit OS, it can't really handle a drive larger than about 2.2 TB.

Full of drives, I bet it would take two people to lift that thing.  Even just a 15 or 20 drive server is quite heavy.

Full of drives, I bet it would take two people to lift that thing.  Even just a 15 or 20 drive server is quite heavy.

That's why it has those huge handles on the side.

 

Personally I prefer the Mad Russian 64 drive server.  After looking at the $4200 price tag for that behemoth I can see why the Mad Russian used plywood.

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of course! 

 

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I'd hate to see that thing perform a parity check if it was fully loaded. I wonder how long Joe L's Preclear script would take. LOL