Did you contact distributors or resellers? And what price were you given for the drives?
No resellers as such, I am tracking prices through pcpricetracker and the one that makes most sense is a 16tb exo for 25k which almost comes to 19$/tb, not ideal but bearable considering the US/India price differences. right now the build is in a planning stage I'm just considering what kind of budget i'll need to have to get a build like this going
What case are you going to use?
Not really decided how I'll go about, right now my options are to go with a jbod or a proper pc case prolly one of those full-size tower ones. I was looking into server prices and its apparent that unless I'm ready to pay 3-4x times their price I won't be able to get a decent server. right now its just considering what my options are if I do go about it.
Just here to appreciate the shear amout of storage your server has (will have). What RAID configuration (or RAIDZ) you are planning to use? Just wanna see how much storage will you actually have to buy
Ideally I'll have atleast a single parity drive. Main use case is for archival/streaming my stuff over multiple devices. I have been talking to a couple of peeps I know who have these kinds of builds but honestly it all depends on what kind of prices I'll need to pay. if the prices are way too high, I'll go with a smaller size build and just use a jbod and call it a day but if I can score these drives at a good deal then yea will prolly go with a RAIDZ mostly