Strydyr - Slashdot User

Comment My Solution (Score 1) 609

by Strydyr on Sunday May 16, 2010 @04:26PM (#32229716) Attached to: Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage?

I suspect I'm about to be SlashDot'ed... My own solution was to build a custom case using two full-tower cases, and several (now 7) 3:5 bay hot swap cages. With two 16 port RAID cards, I have a total of 35 bays, 30 of which are covered by hardware RAID. The project wasn't cheap, but it could probably be done for about $2,000 today (using previously-owned RAID cards), and it gives a temendous amount of growth potential. I initially had two computers in the case, but I eventually reduced it to just one and added more bays. The only problem in a home environment is that it generates a tremendous amount of heat. Pictures and information are here: http://scottl.net/projects/orthros

Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? 609

Posted by timothy on Friday May 14, 2010 @07:59PM from the watch-and-release dept.

i_ate_god writes "I download a lot of 720/1080p videos, and I also produce a lot of raw uncompressed video. I have run out of slots to put in hard drives across two computers. I need (read: want) access to my files at all times (over a network is fine), especially since I maintain a library of what I've got on the TV computer. I don't want to have swappable USB drives, I want all hard drives available all the time on my network. I'm assuming that, since it's on a network, I won't need 16,000 RPM drives and thus I'm hoping a solution exists that can be moderately quiet and/or hidden away somewhere and still keep somewhat cool. So Slashdot, what have you done?"

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