650mb.cd BBS

Side project. I have a big old ATX case with a shit ton of drive bay, and FREE SPACE.

Planning on just having a makeshift JBOD (just a bunch of disks) setup, so right now I'm scouring The online webs for HDDs. I can get them as cheap as $5 but thats besides the point

Should i rebuild my fileserver that had all of my media rips, while also using it as an archival pc? Plan on getting a scanner.

I have all the parts needed PSU, MOBO, and shit. Just gotta get a sata controller card.

Open to comments, thanx.

Yes, an archival/media file server sounds like a great idea for that :). I could probably contribute some of my more obscure media and software to it; would be cool to make it more accessible.

I think using it for a file archival might be good, but I'm also not sure how reliable your drives are. I've had drives last for a decade but also drives that die within hours when they're both the same kind of drive and recieved the same amount of use.
Spinning rust is weird, man

jwilins wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 6:52 amI could probably contribute some of my more obscure media and software to it; would be cool to make it more accessible.

Go ahead! Once i get this built i will provide an FTP-access for people who want to add content.

dorpy wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 11:14 amI think using it for a file archival might be good, but I'm also not sure how reliable your drives are.

Spinny metal kind of sucks but it's also the most reliable. I just get Western Digital hard drives, to be fair - the ones I've had lasted ages. For my P4 PC though, that'll be a totally different story, since I need to get IDE hard drives. :(