As this community is just starting, I thought learning more about each other’s setups would be interesting.

I’ll go first:

  • DS916
  • 4x8TB Hard Drives: 3 WD Reds, 1 Seagate Ironwolf (oldest drive is 53,150 hours or just over 6 years)

I haven’t had to replace anything yet (knock on wood)!

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    Synology’s

    • DS2419+ (105TB of usable space, 80tb in use, 12 drives, mix of 8tb to 14tb drives, 32gb ram)
    • DS1821+ (90TB of usable space, 60tb in use, 2 10tb, 4 16tb drives, 32gb ram)
    • DS620slim (4.5TB usable space, 2TB in use, 6 1TB SSD’s, 16gb ram)

    They all have been running 24/7 since I purchased them. In the last 4 years I’ve only had five drives go bad bad, but I’ve done quite a few replacements for upgrades. I had filled the 12 bay with a mix of 2TB and 4TB drives when I first got it in 2019. I have a container of 18 HDD’s of various sizes that I wish I had a use for.

    • @[email protected]M
      1•1 year ago

      Hooooy …, you are really determined and serious about disk space, huh? 🤣 That’s impressive! (And expensive, I guess.) I only have about 4 TB usable space (2x 4 TB in a SHR plus hot spare plus backup disks as a RAID-0), which is plenty for what I use it for at the moment.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        Ha, yeah, I’ve been burned a few times by not having backups. Aside from backups, the majority is backups of my DVD / Blu-ray collection. When I was single in most of the 2000’s I was at best buy every Tuesday, buying the latest shows and movies to come out on disc 😂