16 Terabytes Ought To Be Enough

[Hooch Tan]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/homemade-16tb-nas-dwarfs-the-competition-with-insane-build-quali/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/...ne-build-quali/</a><br /><br /></div><p>"From the man that brought you the OS Xbox Pro and the Cinematograph HD comes... a cockpit canopy filled with hard drives? Not quite. Meet the Black Dwarf, a custom network-attached-storage device from the mind of video editor Will Urbina, packing 16TB of RAID 5 magnetic media and a 1.66GHz Atom N270 CPU into a completely hand-built Lexan, aluminum and steel enclosure."</p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1273264231.usr20447.jpg" style="border: 0px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Need a weekend project?&nbsp; Try building your own NAS.&nbsp; From Scratch.&nbsp; Including the case.&nbsp; The Black Dwarf looks pretty impressive, especially for a homemade project and it is built to perform too!&nbsp; Topping out at 16TB of storage (it looks like the builder settled for some rendundancy) it also holds more internal capacity than any other NAS you will find out there.&nbsp; All that storage should should last a while, but I know that if I were to have such a beauty, I would become really careless about what I saved and fill it up within months.</p>

[Tony Rylow]

And I thought I was a cool guy with my 5x500GB in an IcyDock. Storage setups like this make me drool. My other favorite is BackBlaze Pod:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

[Jason Dunn]

I watched both the videos of the guy building this, and wow, that's some serious DIY talent, and some serious dedication to go through all that trouble. I can't quite figure out what any consumer would need with this much storage - even if I were to rip all 1300+ of my DVDs to ISO, I'd "only" need about 8 TB. Well, and another 8 TB to back it up. OK, so I need 16 TB. Haha. :D

[Tony Rylow]

He does some sort of video work. On his site (http://www.willudesign.com/Index.html) he mentions that the videos for this build alone are over 1.5TB. A handful more videos of that size and he's got this bad boy filled.

[Hooch Tan]

He does some sort of video work. On his site (http://www.willudesign.com/Index.html) he mentions that the videos for this build alone are over 1.5TB. A handful more videos of that size and he's got this bad boy filled.

1.5TB? He must be recording in 1080p. While I agree with others that I cannot see the need for 16TB, in one way, it is tempting, since I could set it up and not have to worry about storage for years! Of course, the cost component kind of lowers my desire for one.