I have a closet full of random old gadgets that I had no idea what I would do with before acquiring them. My advice is: if you don't have a plan, leave it be. Let it collect dust in someone else's closet.

Don't do this.

These hold dozens of drives, over half a petabyte full, and use a ton of power. If you're not going to fill it (which will be expensive), and use it (which will cost money every month), leave it for someone who will.

For home use, a Plex Server with uncompressed rips with pre-transcoded versions at every resolution, for your extended family's DVD and Blu-Ray collections, will still not even begin to fill it. (Figure 10,000 uncompressed Blu-Rays.)

For startup use with 100 TB - 500 TB storage needs, get two matching ones, fill them both, run as master/slave so you have hardware redundancy.

See more about the platform here:

http://www.45drives.com

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// PS. Shout out to Backblaze, remembering working with you on the first few iterations of these is a blast from the past.

can you pick me one up to, and ship it :)