Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality

jmke · 7th May 2010, 16:35

Meet the Black Dwarf, a custom network-attached-storage device from the mind of video editor Will Urbina, packing 16TB of RAID 5 magnetic media and a 1.66GHz Atom N270 CPU into a completely hand-built Lexan, aluminum and steel enclosure. Urbina says the Dwarf writes at 88MB per second and reads at a fantastic 266MB per second, making the shuttlecraft-shaped 12.7TB array nearly as speedy as an SSD but with massive capacity and some redundancy to boot.

Worklog: http://www.willudesign.com/BlackDwarfTop.html

src: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/h...e-build-quali/

7th May 2010, 19:02

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With over 200 hours of footage totaling over 1.5tb of data, the Black Dwarf made for my biggest worklog video yet. Original music produced just for this project by Phil Lehman-Brown.

It probably won't take long for him to fill his NAS

jmke · 7th May 2010, 19:41

at 1.5Tb per movie he still has enough space left

7th May 2010, 22:26

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Originally Posted by jmke

at 1.5Tb per movie he still has enough space left

There's enough room left for about 7 similar movie project

, so I guess he's safe for a while.
Anyway, it'd take me 100x longer to fill 12TB with data

jmke · 8th May 2010, 00:04

one lanparty

8th May 2010, 10:14

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Originally Posted by jmke

one lanparty

touché ^^

7th May 2010, 16:35	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality Meet the Black Dwarf, a custom network-attached-storage device from the mind of video editor Will Urbina, packing 16TB of RAID 5 magnetic media and a 1.66GHz Atom N270 CPU into a completely hand-built Lexan, aluminum and steel enclosure. Urbina says the Dwarf writes at 88MB per second and reads at a fantastic 266MB per second, making the shuttlecraft-shaped 12.7TB array nearly as speedy as an SSD but with massive capacity and some redundancy to boot. Worklog: http://www.willudesign.com/BlackDwarfTop.html src: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/h...e-build-quali/ __________________

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jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	at 1.5Tb per movie he still has enough space left __________________

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