My Home 14+ TB File Server

[Cortexian]

Hey everyone, if you're interested in PC tech, could I tempt you to take a quick look at a video I just put together about my home file server? I've been wanting to get into doing videos like this for quite some time now and I figured that this would be a neat start!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-hkEioRzuc

Let me know what you think (about the server AND the video composition)!

[Patrickssj6]

Video Composition: It's nice but the White Balance is horriblea bit off. You look like a Zombie and use more light.

First question which came to my mind when I saw this on Youtube: Why? Is this not a bit overkill for home use?

[Btcc22]

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[InnerGoat]

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"The pirated media comes in through the hard drives here and does a reverse 720 noscope in the cpu fan and then exhausts out the back, making the media legal. powersupply spins this direction i think"

freelancer buy some lights please. You'd need a few from different angles to illuminate the case right tbh.

[DEElekgolo]

Freelancer stop stealing from work

[jcap]

Please steal neat stuff for me too thank

liked nd subscribed would watch again

[Cortexian]

Yeah the white balance is pretty off, I tried to correct it with some color grading in premiere but yeah... I got some plans to buy some more camera stuff to make things a bit nicer by the end of the year hopefully.

This was shot on a Canon T1i which is pretty terrible for video. Gonna probably buy a T5i body with a 50mm STM lens.

[Rentafence]

Use it to host halo maps

[Cortexian]

I think Dennis has that covered. Also, I need to be greedy and hoard my 15 Mbps upload just for me.

[Zeph]

How much were things? The enclosure? Sliding case thingies?

[Cortexian]

The chassis is this:
http://www.norcotek.com/RPC-4224.php

You can pick them up for about $400 or so. Includes the back planes and hot swap caddies. The rails were like $40. All the other hardware should have prices readily available on newegg. I'd recommend getting the 9265-8i now that it's out though, faster and in the same price point.

The server rack itself runs for close to $1000, but I got it around $200 because work was getting rid of it haha.

[Zeph]

The server rack itself runs for close to $1000, but I got it around $200 because work was getting rid of it haha.

That's the bit I was having a hard time believing. Those things (even the cheaper ones) are stupidly expensive for what I imagine they are made of. We're talking trampoline levels of profit. You could buy the sheet metal, cut/press, assemble yourself for a considerable fraction of that. There's not any special shit you have to do when making them is there?

[Cortexian]

Not really, it's two metal sides, two doors (you can get any combination of vented or solid w/fan mounts), top and a bottom, 4 casters, and 4 of the corner parts that have the holes for mounting rack rails into them.

Materials-wise they're definitely not worth it. They're marked way up because they only make a limited number and sell them pretty exclusively to data centers and businesses large enough to need their own server racks as opposed to a few server machines here and there.