data storage tower

[leviwitney]

basically im looking to create a data storage and media tower. ive currently filled my 2 - 1.5TB externals and am looking to create a tower with say 6TB using 4 3.5" sata drives such as the following;

http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_tower/raid_tower_mst.asp

but am also looking at putting a blu-ray/dvd duplicater;

http://www.addonics.com/products/duplicator_burner/images/br1x1_diagram_lrg.jpg

and multimedia inputs such as the following;

http://www.addonics.com/products/raid_tower/multi_media_tower.asp

ANY1 DONE THIS BEFORE ?
IF SO WAS THERE A BUILD THREAD ON THIS FORUM I CANT FIND ?

 

[Cromewell]

I don't recall any build dedicated to a storage machine, not so say there aren't any though.

It sounds like you are basically trying to build a NAS box, there are lots of hardware guides out there using FreeNAS which will go over the supported hardware (i.e. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/07/23/how-to-build-a-nas-box/1).

 

[mrjack]

I don't remember seeing a such a thread either. HardOCP does however have an entire section of their forum dedicated to this subject, "Data storage systems".