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Not to be rude or anything, but External RAIDs individual to the user is not really a solid soulution. It may work for 1-2 People working on one project at a time. But it just does not scale. What if someone needs to acces files of that project? they move the raid or plug their laptop on a differen workspace? Not really a great soulution IMO.
Like you say in the last part having a NAS with maybe a bit of room to grow sso 100TB might be the best option that way everyone can access the data and work accross projects. And more importantly it would offer work from a different place in the office or even work from home.
Yea with tape the compressed nr are very missleading. Thats a best case scenario where the files compress 2:1 with TAR+gzip which it literallly never does. Bestcase I have seen was 1.2:1 on a folder consisting of config files. Basically nothing nowdays is compressable you will interact with, except textfiles depending on format. So its best to always asume the raw space as the space you get
SAS is not networking. If you expect to connect 2 systems to another it wont work.
If its just for disks then yes.
From what it sounds you want a NAS and Tape Archive.
So get a device which holds your working Projects, you mentioned arount 20-40TB which is no problem nowdays. Can be done for under 1k with of the shelf stuff.
And Tape backup for stuff you dont need regularly. Maybe chose an older generation of LTO I would look for something that can hold about 1 Project per Tape or the likes of it. LTO5 is pretty cheap used, ca be had for 500 Bucks but is only 1.5TB per tape.
Disclaimer, with LTO never look at the compressed NR, its for compressable data only which video is not. Thus with LTO9 you will only get 18TB
I monitor/log it with a smart plug, or UPS.
At my home I have a shelly plug s Which is just a wallplug insert. That monitors consumption and can give it to you via MQTT, I port it to home assistant and monitor it. Usually my small HP mini node with a couple switches and Router is about 80w.
At my parrents I have a Shelly 1PM Plus, which is integrated in the path to the UPS. It monitores everything like the PoE Switch APs, Server etc as everything is connected to it thats IT. Its about 4.5kwh/day so about 220-240W. That gets also monitored via Home Assistant and MQTT. and 4.5khw/d are bout 2.5USD/day for me. So about 920USD/Year.
So Defo more expensive than a VPS would be. But also more custom and more of an Experience to gather.
My advice if you don’t want your house burning down. Dont fiddle with it, thow it away, or make an RMA claim.
It not like its a 100 Buck product. Saftey goes first here.
Soo you are saying you draw a random ass conclusion from an issue which would not exist if you would have made the right hardware choise? got it. Well done.
Further be aware that PCIe devices also need to support sleepstates. So if you add an old enterprise card liek 10g to your server/machine, then you might idle at twice or more times the power it would otherwise do as that device prevents lower sleepstates.
so the cheapest 10g card or hba is not the best in the long run
Experience. But it all depends. TDP gives a hint in some generations example epyc cpus TDP is relaivly acurate wheras the 35w tdp of intel second gen means litteraly anything between 10 and 60w.
But for consumer systems with an i or r5 cpu and a mid tier gpu 500w is enough. For a server without a gpu and similar cpu 300W will suffice.
dual socket systems of that cpu class maybe 400-500.
With more enterprise stuff 500-700 or with epyc maybe encroaching 1000w with some addin cards.
It depends on maany other variables like Drives attached, PCIe devices used etc.
I mean this is too litle info. What IP exactly? one v6? one Legacy IP? also HDD storage? bruh…Whatabout SLAs? RAM CPU?
Datasecurity? Redundancy?
Even if its a friend I would avoid it.
Yes, because how will you acces wireguard? Whats your endpoint?
I mean its all fine if you have a static IP which never changes but that usually is not the case anymore. So you need a domainname to update. Also vpn.youlab.tld is esier to remember than 131.234.142.83