No via USB 3.0, it’s super stable! The best thing is it is a HW-RAID, if I want to update the storage, I can exchange one HDD after the other. For example 4 TB update to 10 TB, after a few hours and enlarging the HDD partition I have more storage.
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Yes, it is perfect - stable and safe!
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@hafdan - looks cool, but … i want to apologize - this build from my point of view makes no sense from price perspective. NUC ~ 300 euros + QNAP 200 Euros. That’s about 500/ 35w. How many years it will take to equalize power consumption/per price for kilowatt if some dell optiplex for 70 euros or less, with old I3 3440, after some power tweaks in bios and windows will use 45/50 watts out of the wall with same 4 hdds.
Once again, thats only my point of view. In total - build is cool, minimal, but too expensive from storj perspective. Unless you use it as NAS too. 
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You’re right, just one serving isn’t much use. I still use it as BK server and for coin staking. 
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How’s this setup working for you? I am about to upgrade a couple of HDDs in my media server from 4TB to 10TB drives and was thinking about using the older 4TB disks to make a couple of nodes using this setup.
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It works perfectly, spending $ 4-5 a month on electricity. No errors and problems, I have a Raid 5. So I came to replace each disk if necessary and replace it with one with more storage space.
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My node crashed during January while I was on New Years vacation and I was unable to recover it, i.e. it was not worth the time. So I build a new setup that is much more redundant, running the Storj node on a VM that can spawn across 3 servers / hosts. The node came online on the 21th of Feb and has during the last couple of days and weeks taken of .
90% of the traffic is from/to Germany
This is the actual node 
Running ESXi with a MegaRaid LSI card connected to 2x12 drives SAS/SATA enclosures. Around 100TB in raw capacity.
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This is my setup at home. A RaspberryPi4 with 4GB and a Seagate with 4TB for Storj. Everything else is Non-Storj ^^
Otherwise I have 3 more nodes in different data centers with a total of 12TB capacity
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that is awesome… no wonder you are getting near 100% uploads successrate
but hey they wanted 99.9% uptime and this is how its done in case anyone was wonder lol
Copying my 2TB node over to an 8TB drive finally
Another node with some more HDDs at a different location in a real classic ATX case (Lian Li PC-7):
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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: PSA: Beware of HDD manufacturers submarining SMR technology in HDD’s without any public mention
OS on SD-card or on SSD?
My last setup
Server case used like a disk shelf. In front right top corner my own hand-made fan control. This setup much quieter than enterprise shelf on photo. so I launched it and not a real shelf.
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Cool, TB? Power? My System is a NUC.
I just performed an upgrade of my node for both disk and board.
Now it’s running on a Odroid HC2 board (8 cores, 2GB RAM) with a 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD directly connected to the HC2 SATA port.
I previously posted the old hardware here.
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