Comments on: How many hard drives are there in your Home Server?

By: iain

iain — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:41:40 +0000

System Drive

1 x 160GB (internal IDE)

Data Pool = 4.24TB (2.48TB free)

2 x 1TB (internal SATA)

2 x 750GB (internal SATA)

2 x 500GB (external USB)

Backup Drives

1 x 1TB (external USB)

1 x 300GB (external USB)

I have another 1TB SATA drive to add to my pool, but I’m out of SATA ports so I’m just waiting to buy a SATA card.

By: Mark Malley

Mark Malley — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:35:03 +0000

I’m at 5.6 TB with 4 750 GB drives and 6 500 GB drives. I have 2 1 TB drives waiting to be installed once I get 2 more SATA ports that supports spinning drives down.

By: Shane K

Shane K — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:32:18 +0000

I wonder how long that takes to balance…

By: rlocone

rlocone — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:43:12 +0000

Well, right now I have 1.2TB. I will be adding another 3 x 1 TB by the end of Sept.

By: TheJudge

TheJudge — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:00:08 +0000

LOL Nice one…..

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:11:50 +0000

Don’t want to make the wife mad, cause when the wife’s not happy, ain’t nobody happy

My wife told me the other day when I realized I was out of space, that as long as we can afford it, I can put more drives into the home server, in the interest of keeping all our valuable data safe. I may have to go on the ramen diet for a couple weeks to build up my storage space.

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:08:27 +0000

Now, my motherboard has 4x Serial ATA connectors, support for 2x ATA devices and 6x USB ports. My calculator makes that 12 WOW. That means I can add 12x 1TB hard drives to my Windows Home Server………ah, my wife just caught me writing this, so perhaps not!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:57:59 +0000

My server’s currently sitting at just under 300GB, but unfortunately, it’s pretty much crammed full and I desperately need to upgrade the drives.

The case for the final release machine I’m building has room for 9 drives, so I figure I’ll run out of connections on the motherboard before I ever run out of space inside the case.

I’ll be taking monetary donations for buying a few TB worth of hard drives

By: TheJudge

TheJudge — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:36:48 +0000

Nice storage amount of GB/TB, but I would question the long term power consumption, noise, heat and sheer size of all the drives. Better served in the long run to use some 500gb or larger to tone things down a bit. But I know he’s just having fun and testing too….LOL

I’m currently at 1.2T with three drives….plenty of space and noise for me

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:37:09 +0000

Whoops. Thanks JohnCz

By: JohnCz

JohnCz — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:59:50 +0000

You mean 6TB of storage. External drives!?! wow, thats alot of power & usb cables. Thats must be a scary looking Home Server.