Are they Seagates?
Why do I ask that? Read http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/hdd-reliabilty-for-2014-is-out-scary-634896/
Hi guys,
Sorry for the lengthy explanation of what I'm looking for, in bold will be the exact thing I'm trying to build if you want to skip everything else. Hopefully any questions will be answered in my explanation because frankly I'm not sure what I'm looking to build.
I'm a gamer/videographer/photographer and I need ALOT of storage space. I don't need crazy load speeds from RAID setups, but I do need to backup all of my HDDs on a weekly if not daily basis (protection from the annoyance of disk failure, anything else like a fire/theft and it's all insured). Currently in my PC I'm running 8 HDDs and a SSD for the OS and most used programs like Skyrim, Star Citizen, Adobe Suite and Maya because it's only a 120GB. I'd like to make room in my rig because SSDs are cheap enough that I'll buy 2+ for my games to make them load and run better. The HDDs are mostly 3TB Seagates and a few 2TB WD. I've run out of space in both my PC and my enclosure and for this next expansion I'd like to have enough room to not deal with this for a while. Here's what I'm looking for:
Around 20+ HDDs setup as JBOD all connected to my PC. These are just storage capacity for my photo/video editing and archives of everything for my previous clients that get updated more often than you'd think. The HDDs need to be able to run quick enough that I can work on them while save/load times are only a second or so, so I'm thinking I can't network them together?
Preferably hot-swappable
Needs to automatically backup all video/photo data on a weekly basis at the very least, daily preferable
Affordable? (under $1000 excluding any storage or RAM)
Used/Open-Box is fine, but NO REFURB
I'm nervous about buying a large JBOD enclosure like a server rack because they're expensive, I don't know which one to get, and I've been told there's heat and "dirty" power issues with most of them. So I was looking into the idea of building a second PC that only runs the HDDs and somehow hooking the second PC to my main PC either by ethernet cable directly or some other way. I have a Sans Digital 8-Bay enclosure and I HATE it. I cannot stand how often my HDDs go out on me, plus I've gone through two controller cards. In the three years I've owned the enclosure I had to go through 6-7 HDDs. So now I'm looking into an affordable alternative.
Current PC specs:
ASUS ROG Maximus VI Extreme
i7-4970k
MSI GTX670
Corsair TX950
16GB Corsair RAM (unsure on speed, I believe it's faster than 1600 can confirm if needed)
Win 7 64bit Professional

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