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This article was pretty low quality and seems to have been written by AI. It might be better browsing r/datahoarders or a similar online community to find some advice on building a 100TB+ NAS.
Very first picture even looks like AI
Step 1: have $10k in disposable cash sitting around. The rest is gravy.
I spent $2550 on a TrueNAS setup with 3x22TB drives, so 40 TB usable after setting up ZFS. The case can hold 8 drives so I could go up to 120TB usable for an additional $2000 at $400/drive. Building big storage servers is actually much cheaper than you think nowadays.
Step 1: have $10k in disposable cash sitting around. The rest is gravy.
More compute, redundancy etc. of course adds cost but even with RAID1, brand new WD Red drives and a PC build, you should be able to do under $6000.
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I spent $2550 on a TrueNAS setup with 3x22TB drives, so 40 TB usable after setting up ZFS. The case can hold 8 drives so I could go up to 120TB usable for an additional $2000 at $400/drive. Building big storage servers is actually much cheaper than you think nowadays.
Link to the case?
Yeah I think that value prop' just got obliterated by RAM prices sorry.
You don't need a lot of RAM to run TruNAS. 16gb should be sufficient unless you are planning lots of VMs.