Would you mind elaborating on your Storinator setup?

Sure, it's quite a few years old at this point but basic specs:

- Supermicro X10DRL-i

- Dual XeonE5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz

- 32 gigs ram

- 32 gig boot stick

- 512 cache ssd (being upgraded soon to 1tb)

- 27 8TB drives, one for parity, one currently dead that's waiting a replacement

Running Unraid which has served me well.

Thing is sitting in a lack table from ikea which this particular model they stopped making. It has a bottom shelf and came on casters.

One thing I did do right away was replace the stock cpu fans for noctuas since the server would be right next to me and noise was a big deal. Temps are a little higher than they would be with the stock fans but still within safe ranges even under load.

Im almost out of space and I don't really want to upgrade to 10tb drives yet...

Using it primarily for dev and backup.

That's very interesting, thank you for replying. Do you work in media/video or such? 200 TB is a lot! Also unraid is interesting, for 30 storage devices it costs a one time fee of 120 dollars, is that correct?

Yeah, used to do a bunch of video for a side project, 4k video takes up a ton of space as it turns out.

And I do believe that's the cost for unraid, can't remember if that's what I paid.

If I had to build it again I'd probably go freenas.