Comments on: Technical help (External hard drives) https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/ Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Kreta_TX https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-198494 Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:54:35 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-198494 WHY Goemon goes to HELL? FUCK YOU

]]> By: Kreta_TX https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-198493 Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:54:16 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-198493 Duck Tales.
Knock knock.
Anybody “Home”?
woop woop

]]> By: porizj https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-198312 Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:04:09 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-198312 James, if you’re still looking into this, consider CrashPlan as an offsite online backup service. They allow you to “seed” your backup; by paying a fee they’ll mail you a hard drive you can fill with files and send back to them so you don’t have to upload everything. Given how much storage you need you’ll likely need to pay for quite a few seedings, but after that you’re covered in case of emergency and can stop worrying about backing everything up to multiple other drives. As others mentioned, you should consider something like RAID 5 or 10; while you can recover your files in other ways, it’s a huge pain to rebuild a massive RAID 0 partition if one or two drives die.

]]> By: Niki Coppola https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-198281 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:15:19 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-198281 This looks interesting http://www.pcworld.com/article/3057230/storage/sony-cranks-up-optical-disc-storage-to-33tb.html

]]> By: Christopher Ripley https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-198007 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 16:05:48 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-198007 Hello James.

I deal with large RAID environments.

When it comes to RAID spans that are 10+ terabytes I recommend using RAID level 6. These are complicated reasons of how RAID 5 may not be enough if you need to rebuild. Its hard to give math lessons over a comment box however you should really be seeking expert advice IRL.

SATA drives are commonly specified with an unrecoverable read error rate (URE) of 10^14. Which means that once every 100,000,000,000,000 bits, the disk will very politely tell you that, so sorry, but I really, truly can’t read that sector back to you. One hundred trillion bits is about 12 terabytes.

This means when one of those drives fails in your 30TB raid 5 it will need to rebuild itself when you replace the faulty drive. It will read all 30 tb of data and there is a high probability that somewhere in all that data some bits will not be read properly and the rebuild will fail causing data loss.

This is where RAID 6 comes into play. RAID 6 will give you fault tolerance for 2 hard drives. In the background the hard drives are constantly checking and calculating error parity and with 2 drive fault tolerance it becomes less likely. Basically its double checking itself to make sure that the data being read is accurate.

You need some serious hardware there. I would not recommend a premade solution.
If you cannot do this on your own,
I would call around for a company to assemble for you a RAID 6 enclosure with USB3 + ESATA

But right now with the way things are looking you are looking for trouble with just RAID 5

]]> By: The Suspense https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-197934 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:02:13 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-197934 It would be recommended to get an SSD if you haven’t already because it’s very scary to have a mechanical hard drive for a long time and suddenly, the dreaded clicking begins to start.

]]> By: christburner https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-197751 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:15:57 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-197751 I dont have a ton of experience with servers or raid arrays but just the other day i saw a video on NAS setups and it was pretty interesting. i see some other people have mentioned them too. that could be something to look into. sorry i couldnt be of more help, but that NAS rig is pretty neat so i figured id vote up on that suggestion.

]]> By: Alec Utin https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-197608 Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:04:46 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-197608 James I’m not trying to exagerate, but a raid-0 drive will kill AVGN. Get yourself a 7-bay nas from qnap or synology and an expansion bay. Pop in 10 4TB drives and you’ll have your 30+ TB in RAID-6. Don’t go below Raid-5. Even Raid-10 is so much safer than a striped volume. Check the raid calculator to compare Raid 5/6/10 and use your common sense.

]]> By: Steven Sloan https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-197495 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 05:33:41 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-197495 without knowing your budget or ultimate size needs its hard to say but if you need really large storage this san would do you

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP3S84368&cm_re=san-_-22-107-272-_-Product

]]> By: Steven Sloan https://cinemassacre.com/2016/02/25/technical-help-external-hard-drives/#comment-197494 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 05:30:09 +0000 http://cinemassacre.com/?p=30826#comment-197494 sounds like it might be time to upgrade to a san as nas can only take you so far.

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