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.
I think I agree that this was 100% bad AI generated.
The 100TB Build (~$2,500) is full of errors. The math doesn't add up as presented, the HDD prices are for used drives, and it confuses RAIDZ1 and mirroring together as "five drives as two mirrored pairs + spare = ~80TB usable."
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.
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.
I think I agree that this was 100% bad AI generated.
The 100TB Build (~$2,500) is full of errors. The math doesn't add up as presented, the HDD prices are for used drives, and it confuses RAIDZ1 and mirroring together as "five drives as two mirrored pairs + spare = ~80TB usable."
Very first picture even looks like AI
I suspected this as well. It took me a bit to find confirmation, but the weirdly merged WD drives give it away.
Not to mention the pci-e card with contacts on both sides.
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.
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.
I just bought a QNAP. I'm a happy customer.