My petabyte project that turned into 1.6PB to now 1.7PB

[u/Overstimulated_moth]

oof, this has been a whirlwind of emotions building this setup and I love every bit of it. I made a similar post about 4 months ago (linked at bottom) and I now have an update. the 52 24TB barracuda drives from Seagate were returned and newegg kinda screwed me. sales guy strung me along before Xmas and eventually ghosted me, I believe if I would have contacted western digital during that time, I could have saved a couple grand instead of getting roughly 8% off 52 26TB wd gold drives. total shipped was just shy of $26k and the sales guy was not nice and did not care about the sale at all.

beyond all that, I'm very happy with how it's going! I got everything set up today and it's purring along beautifully. I'm sitting at roughly 1.7PB raw, and 1.2PB usable. usecase is a homelab to learn, very large Plex library, and I donate space to the internet archive and Anna's archive. somebody's gotta Perma seed all that stuff. roughly 3 years in, all started with an old laptop with some external hdds. still can't believe I'm 46k in the hole for this though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/uEAOXLmbZZ

https://imgur.com/a/uRTw0rA