PC Enthusiast Builds 70TB Loaded PC with 40 Fans

[rottingsheep]

a bunch of comments later and still no soviet joke?

 

[mhelm1]

I'll bet it keeps him warm in winter.

 

[Guest]

This doofus is behind me. I have over 100TB in my collection. The internet can freeze over into hell tomorrow and I will still be riding high with more materials than I'll ever be able to pore through in my lifetime. My plan is to pack up and eventually move to a cheaper developing country to enjoy the fruits of my *hard* labor!

 

[goonmaster]

[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]Looks at at first but when it comes to hard drives I have become some what an expert and mounting as he have done is a no no especially knowing that most drive manufacturers have skimped on quality. To be more specific the spindle motor. When mounted horizontally all the weight of the platters is evenly distributed on the bearings producing even wear that is predictable. How ever mounting as he have done shortens the life of drive spindle by mounting them vertically ware the weight is unevenly distributed on the bearings producing wear that causes bearings on one side to prematurely fail sooner than they would have normally and also it produces more noise as they age. Second it is no surprise why he/she needed all those fans as the cabinet isn't absorbing and dissipating the heat from the drives as a normal cabinet would.[/citation]
How is this possible? If a flywheel (or HDD platter) is off-center when vertically orientated, it will be off-center when horizontally orientated.

 

[danwat1234]

It wouldn't need very much cooling if those drives were 3TB Caviar Greens..

23 drives needed .... and given '3.89 watts' of idle power usage (according to storage review's review of the hard drive), that equals only 90 watts...
The power wouldn't go much higher some major i/o was going on..

Then again, perhaps the drives take more realistically about 5.5watts per drive when idle (since I am not so convinced that storage review gave a accurate result) , so 23*5.5 = 127w .. still not that bad, just needs a few large, slow turning fans to keep them happy...

 

[back_by_demand]

Assuming A: & B: are still reserved for floppy and D: reserved for his optical drive, his last hard drive will go through the alphabet 2.5 times ending around BK:

That is if he uses them as separate drives of course, RAID is more likely, but I would just love to see Explorer populated with that many drive letters.

 

[danwat1234]

Oh, I forgot to say that regardless of what drives are in this setup, it should be set up so individual drives can spin down ... if it is one big JBOD volume for instance, or all separate volumes, most of the drives would be spun down most of the time. Well, unless a lot of users are accessing it! Some people watching a batman movie, the other, a resident evil movie or something..

So not much or any cooling needed unless 2 or more drives are spinned up that are next to each other...

 

[kelemvor4]

That's not a PC anymore. I's say it's closer to a san storage array.

 

[eddieroolz]

Amazing storage...! Imagine backing them up all up LOL

Even if it isn't pretty I'd still take it.

 

[Pyroflea]

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

Uncompressed Bluray rips are generally >20GB. This server would hold about 3500 movies at that rate. It's doable 😀

Also, there's a 100TB build going on at Hardforum right now. Just saying.

 

[Guest]

He will have fun figuring out what one of his drives have failed when it happens

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]Alchemy69[/nom]Easier to just wait 5 years when 70Tb will come as standard on a laptop.[/citation]

and write the data onto millions of DVDs????

 

[wortwortwort]

At DVD quality, that would be over 16 years of movies (estimated).

 

[dEAne]

More like a dispose ref but cool - mine are enclosures lots of them.

 

[Tom Kamkari]

LOL I don't get it, if had a OC of 4.8Ghz I could understand the 40 fans maybe but a better case design would have left him with no need for fans, the topic should read, Unexperienced PC Enthusiast Builds...

 

[iamtheking123]

If the dude is asian you just know it's all anime. On the SAT it would be Anime: Asian :: Heroin : Prostitute

 

[ehanger]

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

Assuming the average movie is 90 minutes long, it would take 12 years to watch them all. And that's without any breaks.

 

[abhik]

[citation][nom]dogman_1234[/nom]Let us see:2 TB HDD=~150 USD70/2=45
45x150= 6750 USD+9/fan=7110 USD[/citation]

wait a minute, did i just read 70/2=45 ?

 

[abhik]

[citation][nom]random_guy417[/nom]1)You can get a decent 2TB HDD for ~$100 on sale2)75/2 = 353)It says he has 60 HDDs, which means some of those (possibly all) are less than 2 TB.Let's assume they are all 2TB35 2TB HDDs * $100 = $3500, just over half of your calculation.More likely scenario:10 2TB HDDs = 20TB * 100 = $1,00010 1.5TB HDDs = 15TB * 70 = $70030 1TB HDDs = 30TB * 60 = $1,80010 500GB HDDs = 5TB * 50 = $50060 Total HDDs = 70GB = $4,000Still expensive, but also still cheaper than what you calculated[/citation]

lol, first you say 70/2 = 35

then

3500 is just over half of 7110

sorry, i dont know why im picking on everyones mental arithmetic today...

 

[Tom Kamkari]

Thats just crazy, is he even gonna have time to watch all that porn before he dies, lol.

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Tom Kamari

 

[rynoc]

still would like to point out i count 64 drives in the bottom,

now onto some basics, i'm not certain if he used this method, but one can using cheap 2 port controllers with (port multiplier support), run a multiplier off each port end up effectivly getting a 10 port controller for ~ $120, being there pcie 1x slots most of them, chuck a few of them in a board like a GA-880G-UD3H and you could very easily have yourself a 50 port NAS, running off a single motherboard, chuck in some 2TB samsung f4egs (because they are cheap where i am) and you could well have 0.1PB of usable space for i believe in USD, $6400. however thats excluding redundancy, but you would still have the option.

 

[AstroTC]

I always dabbled with the thought of making a wooden case but i always considered it crazy talk