Wish they'd stop with the bazillion HDD racks already. Seriously, who uses them all?

Wish they'd stop with the bazillion HDD racks already. Seriously, who uses them all?

Maybe those that are setting up a home server, something like this would make a nice media server.

Wish they'd stop with the bazillion HDD racks already. Seriously, who uses them all?

the answer is in the very first paragraph

Ideal for users who want to build their own NAS as well as system integrators

Wish they'd stop with the bazillion HDD racks already. Seriously, who uses them all?

Seeing as the HDD racks apparently cut off any option of using a very high-end graphics card, i can't imagine it being used for anything BUT a home server.

I'm sure only an extremely tiny percentage of users needs 10 HDD's nowadays. But it does have a use. Larger 6 and 8TB drives are disproportionately more expensive than 4TB drives. So if you needed like 40TB of space instead of using 5 super expensive 900 dollar 8TB drives which would be 4500 dollars you could just use 10x 300 dollar 4TB drives for 3000 saving a whopping 1500 dollars. Still only a tiny percentage of home users needs 40TB of space.

Sure, 4TB drives are cheaper, and any decent NAS has software raid z2(hardware RAID6) or z3 config of 6 to 8 hdds, and many use older drives, so its more like two volumes totaling 12-16 hdds, plus maybe 1-2 hdds for OS/OS+VM, and ssd or two for fast caching, so it can be from 12 3.5 +usb to 18 3.5 +2 2.5 +usb and i forgot to add hot spares too. Using this particular case would be a start, but not even close to desired volumes(z2 eliminates 2 hdds, z3 -3 from capacity). Anyone, digging deep enough will know, that software RAID is the way to go.