Question When will 30TB / 32TB HDDs be available ?

[braxus]

It's been announced for over a year now, but when do you think we'll see 30TB or 32TB HDDs on the market? I'm running out of space with a 22TB drive with my video files and I can't add in any more drives into my case. So I'd like to get 1 larger drive.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'm running out of space with a 22TB drive with my video files and I can't add in any more drives into my case.

Different pc case with support for more drives.
Or NAS device with support for multiple drives.

Anyway you'll probably have to wait for some time later this year, before they are available to market.

 

[braxus]

My case is already one of the bigger ones you can get and I need 5 1/4" support in it too, which is very limited today. Plus its big enough for the current huge GPUs. I just got this case not long ago, so I have no intentions of upgrading once again for that.

 

[SkyNetRising]

My case is already one of the bigger ones you can get

What model case do you have currently?

Here some options with support for 8 - 12 drives.

5 Best PC Case with lots of Hard Drive Bays (2024 Edition)

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[USAFRet]

Is there a real need for all of this internally?
Why not a NAS?

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

My case is already one of the bigger ones you can get and I need 5 1/4" support in it too, which is very limited today. Plus its big enough for the current huge GPUs. I just got this case not long ago, so I have no intentions of upgrading once again for that.

Its so odd to see the external drive bays at the bottom with that fractal case.

What I would do is get a dual 5.25 drive bay to 3.5 drive adaptor, remove the front fan plate of the adaptor and attach it in the front above the external bay.

Something like this:

https://a.co/d/4hqVHuW

 

[braxus]

Im actually using both 5 1/4" bays at the moment with a Zip drive and blu ray burner. This is why Im struggling finding more spots for drives. Im using both 3 1/2" spots as well. There really is no other place I can put a drive with mounting it.

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

Im actually using both 5 1/4" bays at the moment with a Zip drive and blu ray burner. This is why Im struggling finding more spots for drives. Im using both 3 1/2" spots as well. There really is no other place I can put a drive with mounting it.

Looks like to me there is room for that in that case. Of course you can get some single or double bay types since you want to mount more big 3.5 inch drives. Other ways would be just drilling the four flush mount holes on the sheet metal. Case mods require a lot of planning in measuring what areas you have to work with as well as how its going to effect cooling. Other solutions like adding another case with a power supply is an option but its going to cost more than modding what you have. I've seen some pretty crazy stuff over the years when it comes to case mods. Even making and attaching another box on the case to house drives made out of wood or sheet metal. As far as the 2.5 inch SSDs, that just some sticky velcro tape and you're done. A multi NVMe card would be an option, but mechanical hard drives are going to last longer than any non mechanical drive. Because there is no real data on how long these last other than projected reads & writes. And pcie slots can be an issue too.

I do find it odd we have fewer choices for cases with external drive bays.

I can help you find what you can do with the case as far as adding hard drives, but I would need some pictures of the case that is assembled to see where there is room.
But what I was referring to do with the bracket I suggested was just to screw it to some sheet metal in front of the case somewhere and not in the drive bay itself.

 

[das_stig]

From the description of your work, for me I would go old skool recycler, build a pc out of parts, fill it with any old big disks, install Unraid or TruNAS, connect the machines with a pair of cheap dual port 10G network cards in link aggregation mode and of course, hope you use a UPS to protect everything.

If you think what you can get on ebay, you can make one hell of a storage unit ..

Big cheap case, with lots of HDD bays
Low cost quad core AMD APU, motherboard and 16GB ram, small SDD for boot drive off onboard SATA ports
Quality PSU based on power usage, but not a stupid wattage
and my favourites, DELL IT mode SAS controller card but use it in SATA mode and pair of x540 10G NICS, off ebay.

You could get all this for what, £150 of Ebay and of course the cost of cheap big SATA disks.

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

If you think what you can get on ebay, you can make one hell of a storage unit .

ebay has been a good place to get things to recycle and gut or regenerate. A couple of years back I bought some of those mac pro towers apple discontinued by not supporting them in their OS. Their price was way cheap because most don't know they can boot an OS from the SATA or PCIe bus, but you have to wait till their firmware times out. But if you do this, I recommend saving the OS drive because their bios on that board is done by software entry instead of a console entry point like a PC.
That is the only difference.

But there are some real reputable recyclers on ebay. One of my go to guys before ebay even existed sells on ebay and their web site. Which I recommend checking out "The Server Store" or https://www.theserverstore.com/ . That outfit buys old servers and resells them as well as buys manufacturing end of lines and overstocks. The router server in my build I just did cost me $60, and then the CPU cost me another $60 from someone else. Also, I bought another one, but the 1U bare bones from their site for $160 configured with a little bit more powerful processor and 8gb ram. Which I am in the process of building that one up for my off time DEV work in a Thermaltake Tower 500. But I had to go this route to efficiently have a test bed for the OS I'm currently contributing programming called IPFire.