A little more detail would help others understand your setup 
What is your OS? Power usage. Raid if applicable. Any other information that you are willing to share.
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Pc under
2x Xeon E7450
4x 8GB ECC DDR2
Had enough SATA connectors on board but I did it with 6x PCI SATA extenders (looks cleaner)
Runs on Windows Server
RADI0 (still learning RAIDS in terms of which one saves equipment)
I could go with mirroring (RAID1) but as I read I would lose half of my capacity
I donât mind about power usage (itâs free), but I will measure it for sure.
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Ouch, this is an accident waiting to happen. If only 1 hard disk fails, everything is gone. Please read up on RAID levels.
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Are you referring to SATA controllers or SATA port multipliers?
Controlers
i have one inactive HDD so only 27 running
I went from RPI 4B 4GB with 8 TB HDD and 14 TB HDD. Had 2 nodes. Two of these filled in half failed due to .db corruption of my bad network configure, random disconnects (LTE router and trying to avoid NAT by SSHFS with another remote VM) and too long offline after my boring with waking up node everyday.
Now Iâm with Synology DS2413+ with DSM 7 bought with very attractive price with some HDDâs inside. Already inserted 2x 500GB and 3x 4 TB (Storj node working on these HDDâs with RAID 5 setup. I started to play on it again. 
). This is just my cold storage already to important files. My RPI went back to my wardrobe.
Itâs maintained by Technicolor CGA2121 ISPâs modem and TP-LINK AC1750 A7 router with installed OpenWRT on it.
All of this setup is powered by APC Back-UPS CS 650 with 2x 7 Ah batteries which gives me 1 hour without power. Now got some batteries of 28 Ah for free. Iâm thinking to change on it but I need at first to change cables (actual setup has individual cables made by me out of UPS box too). Problem is I donât have any time now to make this. My first tests with discharging 28 Ah battery goes perfectly fine.
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Please be aware that if you have only 1 public address, it is not of much use to go over 22TB. See the earnings calculator elsewhere on the forum.
Iâd suggest RAID60 with that amount of disks. Forget RAID5 and variants, as rebuilds put a lot of strain on the remaining disks and are very likely to break another disk. Especially with disks that are all alike and of about the same age. And then you are dead.
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not sure if you care or not, but I just looked these up again on hardkernelâs website and theyâve discontinued this product
apparently with the continuing global chip shortages, there was no chance that theyâd be able to produce anymore for a long time, so they just decided that they were doneâŚkind of glad I picked up my second one last year before all of this messâŚ
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The old 132 x 2 TB HDD RAID60 setup has been decommissioned over a year ago, and replaced with 2 x CSE-847E1CR1K28JBOD (SuperChassis 847E1C-R1K28JBOD) currently supporting 26 x ST16000NM002G Seagates Exos 16 TB SAS HDDâs - each HDD housing four SN.
A total of 412 TB HDD space and 103 SN, running in a non-RAID setup since itâs not recommended by Storj.
The 103 SN are hosted on a single SYS-2048U-RTR4 (SuperServer 2048U-RTR4) server with 4 way CPU (88 core system) with 512 GB of memory, and 10Gbit/s uplink to our Network/ISPâs
More hardware specification at my site â www.th3van.dk (look for Hardware Overview)
Power consumption has also changed :
- Total system power draw : 896W
- Power draw per TB stored (currently 50,357 TB) : 17,79W
- Power draw for 103 full nodes (412.7 TB) : 2,17W
Earnings for each of the SN â http://www.th3van.dk/storj-earnings
In = Egress
Out = Ingress
Th3van.dk
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I thod i have big(200TB setup) but this is realy greate. how much of this is full? how much total do you have filed space?
Currently none of the HDDâs are filled yet on this Supermicro server
Totals bytes in use (2 x supermicro servers and 1 x Odroid server) :
- 2021-10-20 - 60.463.512.158.720 Bytes in use
- 2021-10-21 - 60.919.440.829.184 Bytes in use
- 2021-10-22 - 61.511.039.279.616 Bytes in use
- 2021-10-23 - 62.396.754.831.616 Bytes in use
- 2021-10-24 - 63.630.399.483.136 Bytes in use
- 2021-10-25 - 64.664.870.552.832 Bytes in use
- 2021-10-26 - 65.423.661.889.536 Bytes in use
th3van.dk
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This post is quite old but just wanted to tell you that I managed to add a 5th 3.5" internal HDD to the HP Microserver Gen8. It works like a charm!
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My Microserver is a lot older than yours (Mine is an N54L) but it is one of my favorite pieces of hardware.
It ran a couple of VMâs perfectly acceptably all while running most of the basic services on my network including the main SMB shares and it did that job for several years⌠Considering the low power of the CPU I was quite impressed. Sure, itâs no speed demon. It was also one of the very few systems I bought brand new.
hmm, Estimated total by end of month 559.92 GBm 565.42 GB $ 4.29 ist not lot of $ 
RIP brave storjserv1, you fought by my side since december 2019
Its cheap ass PSU died 2 days ago at night (I am not at home on weekdays), I donât think itâs worth getting a new one (need 8 SATA power connectors), so I gladly give you guys my repair traffic
Still got 4 other machines running at other locations, one of them will at some move point to my basement to replace storjserv1
What is the PSU model? Mine working since 2013 as a home server without issues (almost see Moving from Windows to Ubuntu and back).
Itâs InWin with their standard PSU (cheapest of course )
Iâm removing dust every six months, so I may say almost no service.
âbe quiet! Pure Power 10 (400W)â
I have several other PSUs here, but none of them supports 8x SATA power, so Iâm just letting the node die.
I also already found another use for the SSD boot drive in a miner 
I never removed dust from that server, but my basement is pretty clean. There were spider webs in the server tho 
Mine is working on the loggia at the moment, so the dust is collecting enough, our house is 400 meters away from the motorway.
In a previous 6 years it worked in a living-bed-citchen room (yes, it was a pretty small apartments), so I made it silence as much as possible, it was not interfere a sleep even of my wife (the road near the house was loudly audible even on the 22nd floor with open windows)
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Hah yeah, back when Storj V1 was still active, I lived in a huge city too. Makes quite the difference regarding dust buildupâŚ
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i didnât think BeQuiet! were bad/cheap PSUâs thoughâŚ