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I've been slowly buying up 8TB drives to build my next server. They are exclusively the ones talked about here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/co ... ompendium/
TL;DR, WD Red model drives found in external drives sold exclusively at BestBuy and at crazy lower prices than you normally would find Red drives going for.

I continue to go with an 8 drive setup with RAIDZ2. That leaves me with 48TB advertised, 40TiB effective.

As for the rest of the system, Xeon setups are in a bit of a weird place right now. Basically, the current/next generation isn't mature and not all options are readily available to buy, whereas the readily available generation is too old (like 2016) for me to want to throw money away on them.

That led me to give Ryzen a cursory look, and there was this magic discovery:
AMD themselves state that Ryzen supports ECC RAM!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5 ... ?context=3

That meant I could buy consumer level hardware that could do an enterprise level functionality. SO much cheaper!

But most Ryzen motherboards don't actually support ECC, some even say they do but they actually just run the RAM with ECC disabled. It took days of research and a couple "okay this motherboard looks good. oh wait no it wouldn't have worked at all" that lead me to settle with:

Fractal Design Define R5
Seasonic SS-400FL2 400W
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
ASUS Prime X370 Pro
2x Kingston 8GB DDR4-2400 ECC KVR24E17S8/8MA
8x Western Digital 8TB WD80EMAZ and WD80EFAX

Currently still investigating what OS to go with, but it will still use ZFS.

So did this beast ever see the light of day?

What was the final all in cost?

Haha, I had built it all up but didn't switch to it for months due to other things going on, but then my previous server died one night. Cue mad rush to bring up the old 8 drives on the new server to sync any newer data to the new drives (good thing I had already synced the bulk of it) and do basic setup to at least have my SMB shares back up. It runs Ubuntu Server, nothing special.

I then taught myself Docker and replaced some of my former VMs (on ESXi) with docker instances.

Cost... I hadn't compiled that up before, let's see.

$75.24 - Fractal Design Define R5
$103.77 - Seasonic SS-400FL2 400W
$599.47 - AMD Ryzen 5 1600, ASUS Prime X370 Pro, 2x Kingston 8GB DDR4-2400 ECC KVR24E17S8/8MA
$1340.05 - 8x Western Digital 8TB WD80EMAZ and WD80EFAX

Total: $2118.53 + another $167.51 if you want to count the 9th HDD I have as a readily available spare.