The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SciFiIsMyFirstLove on 2024-07-01 16:31:47.
It all started with my Steam and Gogs Games collection about 4 years ago and at that point I had two 110Tb Raid 6 Arrays on Supermicro dual CPU gear using 4TB SAS3 HGST drives.
Then about twelve months after that I started to get real sick and I was told that I would need both lungs replaced within twelve months and the likely hood was that I wouldn't survive the surgery, so it took a couple of weeks but I had my friends clear out all my sever gear and drive racks and I spent a lot of time from that point forward doing nothing for about two years... waiting to die.
I finally got to see a specialist and after talking to me he completely changed the medications I was on and while I still suffer from stage four C.O.P.D my ability to breathe went from 21% lung function to 43% lung function, it turned out the the medications I had been put on were fighting each other and their effects were polar opposites.
So I gave away $60,000 U.S.D worth of gear because of idiot doctors.
So now I have started again today I brought my brand spanking new 15 disk NAS, it features an AMD 7700X on an ASRock Steel Legend X670E with a PCIe bifurcation card to allow a 9361-8i and an HP 24 connection HP SAS3 expander to run on the PCIe 5x16 slot.
It has 64GB DDR5-6000 ram @ 30-36-36-76 timings, the RAID controller also has a Cachevault and Battery Back Up unit or BBU.
Although the X670E based board has a 2.5GB and 1GB Ethernet Connections I have a 10Gb Card for it so I will be adding that to the PCIE x 4 slot.
On this I will be running a 130TB array configured using 15 10TB SATA3 disks and will have an additional two spare for swaps.
My use case , I am presently downloading the complete continental United States Satellite MAPS as 1m Digital Elevation Models and 1/9th ARC second models ( as the 1Ms are incomplete )
I then intend to create a complete map of height elevation data by laying down the 1/9th arc second data and then overlaying the 1M data where available to get the most accurate map possible.
This I can then cut into various chunks of height maps for any game that I see fit to do so.
Beyond that I am actually looking at the most efficient way to store mapping data for when I create my own game since with a bit of luck I'm now not going to drop dead soon.
I am still waiting for one question to be answered though and that is if I can fit on the 9361-8I a connection to connect it to a:
U.2 Drive.
U.3 Drive
NVMe
If anyone knows please let me know.