It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jakstern551 on 2025-03-01 11:05:13.

Hey everyone, just joined the hoarder life and wanted to share my setup! Managed to find this 24-bay chassis on Alibaba for $300 including shipping, and it's been absolutely great so far.

Right now, I'm running only 6×12TB drives in a RAIDZ2 vdev. The drives are hooked up to an LSI 9300-16i, which I slapped a fan onto so it doesn't overheat. My motherboard has 8 SATA ports so I'm using reverse breakout SAS cables to connect them to backplane.

Planning to add an Intel Arc GPU for AV1 transcoding to save space on media files.

Other specs:

Ryzen 2600

32GB RAM

2×480GB SSDs for OS

I already had the cpu,motherboard and RAM from my old PC, so I only had to pay for the LSI card, chassis, and drives.

50$ incl tax for LSI

145$ incl tax per 12TB drive

Any tips for me ?

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