PC Enthusiast Builds 70TB Loaded PC with 40 Fans

[rpgplayer]

next in news, RIAA raids this guys house....

 

[Jerky_san]

You could get a Adaptec 5405 with 2 or 3 chenbro sas expanders and do this if you got the drives.. I just built a 40 tb for my work with 1 chenbro using 2tb hitachis in a raid 6..

 

[tommysch]

Is really nice.

1400 Ripped BR.

 

[Gekko Shadow]

I wonder if he backs up his data :E

 

[presto311]

Hmm, it's funny that just because it's a computer he felt like he needed to use computer fans. If you're going to make something that big and ugly you might as well go get some industrial fan instead of going to the trouble attatching all those little ones.

 

[idiom]

Much lolz, in 10 years 70TB will be in flash memory for phones.

 

[Snipergod87]

defrag go!

 

[warezme]

chernobyl ghetto

 

[jd91651]

I hope is has an equally inventive backup strategy.

 

[drwho1]

This is interesting, because I have been thinking on building a case on wood myself sice I can't find a case that will hold 16 Hard Drives, a DVD or BD drive and Creative drive.

Of course what I got in mind does not compare to the setup here (I think I counted 58 drives) too many.

also why so many small fans?
I think that 2 very large fans, or 4-6 200mm fans would do better and use less energy.

 

[theguy82]

If only this person waited a few more years (maybe a little more than a few) he would have been able to fit that into a normal size case 😛
But, hey, if this is what he loves to do, to all their own!

 

[hang-the-9]

This will be just enough to hold the 50 special edition Avatar re-releases that will be out. With an extra 20 seconds of tree branch waving footage! New commentary by the guy that opened the door for the coffee delivery guy!

 

[Necromas]

At that point shouldn't he just use a big fan instead of a bunch of case fans?

 

[I800C0LLECT]

That's a lot of prOn.

 

[bpeglow]

It would take about 16 years to watch 70TB of DVD quality movies figuring an average of 2 hours a movie. Let's hope he watches comedies, they tend to be on the shorter.

 

[rogerdpack]

this reminds me of backblaze' storage racks...

 

[random_guy417]

Let us see:

2 TB HDD=~150 USD
70/2=45

45x150= 6750 USD+9/fan=7110 USD

1)You can get a decent 2TB HDD for ~$100 on sale
2)75/2 = 35
3)It says he has 60 HDDs, which means some of those (possibly all) are less than 2 TB.

Let's assume they are all 2TB
35 2TB HDDs * $100 = $3500, just over half of your calculation.

More likely scenario:
10 2TB HDDs = 20TB * 100 = $1,000
10 1.5TB HDDs = 15TB * 70 = $700
30 1TB HDDs = 30TB * 60 = $1,800
10 500GB HDDs = 5TB * 50 = $500
60 Total HDDs = 70GB = $4,000

Still expensive, but also still cheaper than what you calculated

 

[jgiron]

all those HDs running on a P2-250 MHZ on a Win998 Box! DOH!

 

[Guest]

LOL - those HDD have only the power connector plugged in. I don't see any SATA or PATA conection, no circuit bord conectors on the HDDs.
Can't you see there is no data connection???????????

 

[kinggraves]

[citation][nom]drwho1[/nom]This is interesting, because I have been thinking on building a case on wood myself sice I can't find a case that will hold 16 Hard Drives, a DVD or BD drive and Creative drive.Of course what I got in mind does not compare to the setup here (I think I counted 58 drives) too many.also why so many small fans?I think that 2 very large fans, or 4-6 200mm fans would do better and use less energy.[/citation]

There are server racks that can hold 16 drives (although they're ridiculously expensive). If you want a more DIY/Tower type solution then get a full tower case with lots of 5 inch bays (The Lian Li PC P80 for example) and drop some backplanes into the 5 inch slots. 9x5 inch drives turn into 15x3 inch drives. It also might be better to go with an external DVD drive and creative control box, then you could dump the PC out of the way and run the drives to a more reachable location.


[citation][nom]NoSATA[/nom]LOL - those HDD have only the power connector plugged in. I don't see any SATA or PATA conection, no circuit bord conectors on the HDDs.Can't you see there is no data connection???????????[/citation]

Last pic, blue and red wiring

 

[brett1042002]

[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]This is heavy![/citation]


MCFLYYY!!!!!

 

[znegval]

[citation][nom]cryio[/nom]So we have 70.000 GB with DVD quality films. That's70k / 4 GB = 17.500 moviesBut if he had HD movies 720p/1080p as in 8-12 GB we would have about...70k / 8 GB = 8.75070k / 12 GB = 5.834 . So that's not a whole lot.[/citation]

Not a whole lot? Are you insane? Even if it is all 1080p, based on your numbers I could watch a different movie every single day for the next 16 years or so. My entire family will never watch that many movies in our entire lives.

 

[deletemach_kernel]

3D Porn!!!!! whhhhhaaaatttttttt.... i never knew such a thing existed....

now lets see..... 1tb= rs 5000/-

so now 70 tb = 350,000 rupees.....damn that thing costs more than my car including a three year chevrolet service contract 8)

 

[masop]

[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]I don't think a human lives long enough to watch 70 TB of movies.[/citation]

Now that depends greatly on the encode process. Well, let's do the math.
That would be about 18 to 37 (raw untouched bluray) movies for every 1TB x 70TB = 1,260 to 2,590 movies.

More realistically that would be about 116 (assuming 8GB per release) or 58 (assuming 16GB per release) per 1TB, and that comes out to about 4,060 to 8,120 x264 1080p encoded movies.

That is a **** load of movies, but could easily be watched in a human lifetime. Though that wouldn't leave much time for anything else. My guess is he is hosting them for the masses, is an electronic pack rat or wants to be the next Netflix, lol. 🙂

 

[duanekimball]

Probably replaced by a single device in 10 years