It’s connected with 1Gig Ethernet, have no clue who said Wi-Fi?
Also, the pcie cable did not come with shielding so I’m not sure if it’s needed.
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It’s the only router huawei. I can configure port forwarding on it and anything else I want. Davicom-1250 UPS. It’s a 12 volt 5 amp redundant power supply with two 12 volt 12 amp batteries inside. It powers all the other devices: router, computer, three discs. Only the UPS is plugged into a 220 outlet. It’s like this.
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Damn! Are you filling those things with 20TBs… or are you starting small and growing?
I will start with 20 disks first: 10x20TB and 10x22TB.
If the 22TB run smoothly i will fill the rest up with them as soon as the last disk is catching data.
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This is my Server in Frankfurt in the Dataacenter. I have at the moment 4 drives with 18Tb each, wich i will send there so they can put them.
Planned total Capacity then: 100Tb
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How high is your Bandwith speed? Do you have multiple providers to carry that load?
But nice Project you have there. Good luck. Wondering when i will join the 1Pb Club 
Hi, which provider did you use for your computer and how much does it cost? Unfortunately I have real problems with my bandwidth at home, maybe it’s an alternative for me. What connection do you have?
I rented a space in the datacenter at https://host-unlimited.de/ . But unfortunately I don’t think that they do Tower Housing anymore, because I cannot find it on the website anymore.
I pay 74€/month for everything. And I have a gigabit connection with 3 dedicated IPs.
In the last 2 years they got quite expensive because of the energy crisis. Before they were pretty cheap
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Yes there are 5 ISP available, the complete bandwidth overall is ~25G/25G.
However, bandwidth is not the big deal at least for now… but it is always good to have enough 
Are you running a similar setup?
And me being exciting because I am burning in two new-used 14TB disks
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No, I would like to, but I don’t have enough money for that. And Internet and electricity is quite expensive.
A gigabit connection at home would cost 90€/Month and electricity costs are at the moment at like 0,4€ per kWh.
Plus my provider at home doesn’t support ipv4. They only have cgnat here. So I would have to rent vpns too
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Sorry for my curiosity, what is your expected ROI? If I may ask 
I’m doing my math homework, and can’t make it damn work, unless I get either free HW, or free electricity + connectivity…
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Well it is Init7 at least for 3 lines, each of them could be upgraded to 25G but as you know bandwidth is not a problem for the moment.
As long as i know they do offer a /29 subnet with 5 usable ip but not 5 usable ip in different /24 subnets… if so just let me know and i will reacht out to them
But i love the reliability and service they deliver, awesome ISP! Are you also on Init7?
Regarding the hardware i was a lucky one… i work in it and my company broke down her own datacenter and moved into the cloud, so i was able to buy the hardware for a few bucks.
(Disks not included…)
Let me fill that first and we will see if it is worth it to add 1PB more. 
Sad to her that. And the most VPNs are surely already used by someone 
(naahh its not me)
As described in my post above i was lucky about the hardware but you really dont need it if you dont want to go banana like me 
I think @littleskunk actually run a really interesting low const rpi project instead.
ROI… hard to say, the hardware was payed years ago except for the disks, internet is not that pricy in switzerland and electricity is also hard to say because the most of the day the servers are powered by solar power… so at the end i would say my ROI is like something between 8-11months.
I am not goint to post any pictures. My Pi5 has requested that I respect his privacy 
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If you will post your RPi setup I might post a picture of probably one of the most ghetto setups anyone have ever seen, with dirt and everything. Then we can share the embarrassment.
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You can blacken the names and ports to protect its privacy.
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Ok now I have an idea for a photo. I still need to finish this setup. I am currently migrating one of the nodes to ext4. It takes forever.
My manager asked me to make a blog post out of it. I guess I could publish my photo there. I haven’t thought about the content of that blog post yet. I could go over the hardware recommendation. The case and nvme extension board are awesome. The hard drive enclosure is a solid mäh. There might be better options out there. And the rest of the blog post would be more about file system choices like ZFS vs ext4, what I would pick if there would be a pi5 model with more RAM and my storagenode config.
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Believe me… no 
you cannot estimate exactly when you will full your HDD. Test data will push forever? Customers coming? Look at th3van setup and historic earnings (up and down) and do the math. Future will be better? I hope so! but if this is the case, the arrival of many other operators sharing earnings will also be inevitable.
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