Coming in from the leading edge of high-capacity storage servers for audio is PC Audio Labs' Eclipse, a 17-terabyte monster designed with high-resolution tracking and heavy sample access in mind. The unit also delivers the benefits of centralizing storage needs for a variety of DAWs and editing boxes. It may be tough to keep in mind, but this too shall pass; in less than five years 17TB will look as quaint as 17GB looks today. From PC Audio Labs:

PCAudioLabs now offer the most complete solution available to date – the Eclipse server solution. Eclipse is an AMD-based dual processor system featuring 14 Terabytes of storage housed in a 3U rack using Windows XP x64 software. As hardcore as the idea of having 14 TB of storage sounds, we know you'll always need more – so every drive bay in Eclipse is removable, allowing you to change drives quickly and easily for different projects.

• 14 Terabytes of Storage
• 3U Rack Mount Chassis
• Removable Hard Drives
• Redundant 800W Power Supply
• Dual-Gigabit Ethernet Ports

Features and Specifications:

Eclipse 3U Server Chassis

• 16 Hot-Swap Removable Hard Drives
• Slim DVD-ROM drive
• Redundant 800W power supply
• Dimensions: 5.2" x 17.2" x 25.5" (H x W x D)
• 7 Full-Height, Full-Length Expansion Slots
• 3 x 80mm Hot-Swap Fans + 2 x 80mm Rear Fans
• 2 x USB Ports on the front

Motherboard

• Tyan Dual Opteron Motherboard
• Expansion Slots: 2x PCIe x16, 3x PCI-X, 1x PCI
• USB 2.0: 4 ports (back) + 2 ports (front) + 2 ports (back optional)
• FireWire: 1 port (back)
• Network Ports: 2 x 1000Mbps ports
• Memory Slots: 8x DDR-400 slots (16GB max)
• Onboard Serial ATA: 4 x SATA ports w/RAID options
• Built-in Audio: Built-in AC97 audio with I/O ports

CPU

• Dual AMD Opteron 275 dual core 2.2GHz

Memory

• 4GB DDR400 ECC (4 x 1GB)

VGA card

• NVIDIA GeForce 7200GS 256MB DVI/VGA

Optical Drive 1

• Slim CD/DVD-ROM Drive

System Hard Drive

• 80GB SATA II (7200rpm : 8MB cache)

Operating System

• Windows XP Professional x64

Storage

• 14 Terabyte RAID5 (Other RAID Configurations available upon request)
• (Using 15 x 1TB Hitachi 7200RPM, 16MB cache)
• Highpoint RocketRAID 2340 SATA II 16 Channel
• 4 x Highpoint 1B-1M4S Infiniband to SATA

Keyboard

• PS/2 Wired Keyboard - Black

Mouse

• PS/2 Wired Optical Mouse - Black