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<blockquote data-quote="milhouse" data-source="post: 227651" data-attributes="member: 26653">dubyajah-It's not the total capacity I am really looking at - it's the number of drives I can support.&nbsp; Right now, I've got 8*500GB.&nbsp; My assumption is that drives keep getting bigger, so the best way to expand will be to add 5*500, then another 5*500, then start swapping out the 500GB for whatever the best $/GB is at that time.Basically, I think the &quot;value&quot; approach is to be able to incrementally upgrade, so that means cramming as many disks into a box as I can.&nbsp; I realize this is exactly what unRaid is intended to support.&nbsp; I would go for it if only the drive limit was 20 instead of 16.&nbsp; (Actually I would prefer a drive limit of 22 or 24 in case I needed to hook up an external drive temporarily some time.bobb25-Excluding the drives (already have the 8*500, and the 2*160 system drives are dirt cheap) the whole hardware setup is around $1300 at newegg, including shipping.&nbsp; Drives right now, were I to get another 10 * 500 GB, would be $100 each.&nbsp; That's why I prefered to split the cost over two purchases spaced months apart.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="milhouse, post: 227651, member: 26653"] dubyajah- It's not the total capacity I am really looking at - it's the number of drives I can support. Right now, I've got 8*500GB. My assumption is that drives keep getting bigger, so the best way to expand will be to add 5*500, then another 5*500, then start swapping out the 500GB for whatever the best $/GB is at that time. Basically, I think the "value" approach is to be able to incrementally upgrade, so that means cramming as many disks into a box as I can. I realize this is [I]exactly[/I] what unRaid is intended to support. I would go for it if only the drive limit was 20 instead of 16. (Actually I would prefer a drive limit of 22 or 24 in case I needed to hook up an external drive temporarily some time. bobb25- Excluding the drives (already have the 8*500, and the 2*160 system drives are dirt cheap) the whole hardware setup is around $1300 at newegg, including shipping. Drives right now, were I to get another 10 * 500 GB, would be $100 each. That's why I prefered to split the cost over two purchases spaced months apart. [/QUOTE]

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