884TB G-Drive Haul for City College Cinema Dept! Got an insane donated haul of 884TB of drives from a production company moving their weird old cold storage solution to S3. It's too many drives for students to actually use for their productions, I'd like save a half dozen for production use and throw the rest in a server/jbod setup. 24 are 2x 10TB arrays, 3 are 2x 12TB arrays, 8 are 2x 8TB arrays, 18 are 2x 4TB arrays. What's crazy is the guy said this is just 1 of 3 donations, with likely another 1.5 PB coming. I'm thinking it needs to be striped with double redundancy since the drives are older and I haven't pulled hours stats on em yet. This is a bit out of my range of knowledge as I just have a 320TB (220ish usable) setup on my truenas homelab. I'd ideally like to figure out a really good rack solution that we could shuck all these into. 45Drives? Whatever it is, it has to have a SATA backplane obvi. Or would you do a server + jbod setup? Ideally we'd run some light lab stuff on it too.…