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I am eying on to this storage dedi but I am in trouble as soon as I saw it.
yongsiklee
Member, Patron Provider
What should I do with this many TBs (40TB)?
**€43.70 / month
69h 23m left
Intel Xeon E3-1271V3
(CPU-B 7470)
4x 10 TB
Ent. HDD
32 GB
ECC
Ent. HDDiNICIPv4
General
Server AuctionID: 1724383
DC: #HEL1-DC2 (HEL)
Traffic: unlimited
Information
4x RAM 8192 MB DDR3 ECC
4x HDD SATA 10 TB Enterprise
NIC 1 Gbit - Intel I210
Support services
replacement of defective hardware
free email support
free phone support
Price
€43.70 exclusive VAT
No Setup Fees**
What should I do with this many TBs.
- What should I do with this many TBs?75 votes
- Buy it no matter what.32.00%
- Do not buy and try to forget you have the option to do anything with the money you have.22.67%
- Exit LET.45.33%
Comments
That's a good one to share with someone else. 16GB RAM, 2c-4000CPUB, 20TB at €22!
(I volunteer! jeje)
I was actually looking how possible this was with this server without paying for another ip fee but didn't see much around.
40TB? That's not enough for anything serious yet if you want to setup a plex server :P
Well, I can share it with you if you lay down terms in detail.
Storage is overrated.
Content should reside in the RAM or Intel Optane.
Disk is only for booting operating system.
Thus, I'd rather take 2TB RAM and 256GB NVMe.
I bought one of these a few weeks ago, still haven't properly set it up yet
I'm gonna use it for all of my personal stuff and throw TrueNAS on it
So what you are saying is a 40TB storage should be used only as a booting purpose.
That's too...cool.
Can you do # hdparm on that disks?
Run plex on it and manage your own library, use it for hosting linux isos, have it as a secondary backup server. store some personal stuff on it like family photos etc.
Aside from that, I don't think it is much of any use unless you're willing to pay for the IPs, then a lot can be done with that much storage.
I guess you could also share it with someone and then split the cost of the servers and an additional IP (sadly the only IP that is still reasonable except for the setup fee). Then there's endless possibilities. Then too, you'd be limited by your memory if anything.
I can have a mastodon server and store media files permanently on it.
Can't you see the server directly comes from hell !
This wasn't a serious statement.
Don't buy something you don't want because it is only cheap.
I'd use one or two disks for redundancy.
Mount as a local drive via SSHFS or something like that, and use as a high-latency storage device.
Store backups.
Fill it with YABS and 4K .bmp memes.
4x10 TB HDD is good for personal storage.
For real usage you could have got 2x1TB SSD/NVMe and host sites/apps/db
Define 'real usage' for me please, Sir.
He did, just not very detailedly, in the line you quote:
So anything that might require much writing and/or random IO. Though many sites/apps are fine on legacy drives IMO, if the common working set fits into RAM or the use pattern is fairly low intensity.
If "common working set fits into RAM", you may as well have the content reside in RAM at all times.
You just need 25 servers around the world.
You won't lose any data as long as not all of them fail / reboot at the same time.
I thought it was an extremely cool and serious statement.:-)
I build high performance network routers.
Routers forward packets between Ethernet adapters, and cache content in RAM and Optane and possibly NVMe.
HDD can only be used for booting the system; it's too slow otherwise.
Common working set is not the entirety of your data. Core data that is used all the time and data that regularly active users touch. In DayJob we have DBs in the10s (& 100s) of GiB range which have far smaller common working sets so the applications don't need that much RAM to feel like they are running from RAM most of the time. Of course if you can practically hold everything in RAM without breaking the bank, that is the way to go.
How is Chia shitcoin these days?
It's been a year.
It won't be 40TB any more once you set up RAID...
It won't be 40 TiB without raid either ;-)
That's probably why he said TB without 'i' - may it be intentional or not.
Anyways, tempting deal - if there was no VAT..
Is it still <40TB once you set up RAID...0?
Usually when people say "RAID" they mean other levels (RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, etc). I'm not sure how many people use RAID0 instead of other methods of combining the disks together, such as LVM, a ZFS zpool, or whatever btrfs does.
Generally people don't want to lose data when a disk fails, and hard drives are a lot cheaper than they used to be many years ago, so it's becoming less common to use any of these methods to combine disks together.
The question still remains: Is it still <40TB once you set up RAID...0?
Yes, actual usable space for a 10TB HDD is around 9.1TB. After created RAID 0, you should get a 36.4TB volume.
don't buy because hetzner will never let you stream 40TB's worth of data on an auction server. your account will suddenly disappear and your data with it.
you can always stream them thru nginx's directory index and that doesn't require more than 32mb ram