Frankenstein Theater Project - Page 6

Yes but mostly on the bedroom flatscreen so that I can watch laying down, good job I finished mounting that on the wall

Updating UnRAID Box:

So I was going nuts combing through the UnRAID logs trying to work out why it's shutting down after 5 minutes once I've finally plugged everything together and shut the case, I think I've found at least part of the problem this is the CPU1 fan and believe it or not, it's actually in a better state than the CPU2 fan!

Consolidating Video onto xServe RAID

Expanding unRAID Server:

There are many was to do it and so I think your milage may vary (and I'm more than happy to help where I can), you can get complete UnRAID servers from Lime Tech and I think you would have an easy life and massive storage
I decided to go the self build route both because I like the technology side and to save money, so it's been an interesting path so far as you've probably seen from the previous posts but on the other hand, there's no other way I could have afforded a NAS box that can grow to share 32TB of video using 2TB drives.
As I'm still getting to grips with my UnRAID server (one of the HDDs just went offline during my 7TB data load), I'm going to use it as secondary storage for a while and use my 3TB Apple RAID box as my HT production system.

My varied experience with UnRAID continues, it's rejected another 2TB drive so I currently am using the parity drive to share my data, more and more I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm going to use it as near-line storage and use the 2TB Apple RAID as my primary video server.
If I can find another good source of 500TB PATA HDDs then I can expand the Apple RAID to 6TB.

S shaped steps and curtains:
Sometimes you put off a job for months because deep down you know it's going to be a nightmare and sometimes you find your instincts are spot on!
It took me more than 6 months to progress from the straight steps curtains to the S shaped steps curtains........
Edited by Expat444 - 11/19/12 at 8:32pm

New toys

A All true, I'm just going to stick with the Xserve for a while as I'm fed up feeding my unraid box drives and I can fit all of the family library in to 3TB.

Plus I'm still having no luck with cheap SATA extender cards either so I'm limited to 4 drives, unless I can solve that then I'm at a bit of a dead end with that server.

The reason for the latest Rack #1 addition

Finally some progress
Only ~18 months after I "finished" the theater, we got the new sofa/recliner delivered.

Finally pulled the trigger on a Jamestown 150" Seymour XD 16:9 screen, only (an unknown but too many weeks) until I can finish my screen wall!

Good Luck!
I've pretty much given up on my UNRAID box and I'm expanding my Xserve RAID instead as I see good deals come up on the 500GB IDE drives that it takes.
The picture on the current (second) temporary screen wasn't bad, it's on stretched muslin from JoAnn fabrics and is wrinkle free but it lets too much light through that reflects on the rear wall (something else to fix when I get the real screen) but at least I no longer have the seams from the first (bedsheet) temporary screen.

You should be fine, to be honest my UNRAID problems come down to 2 issues that I just got fed up trying to troubleshoot:
1) It keeps rejecting 2TB drives during the data load that work perfectly well elsewhere.
2) I can't find a cheap PCI-X SATA card to use as a SATA port extender so I'm limited to 5 drives (including parity).

I'm using a combination of Xserve 500GB and other 500GB drives and it's working great, ironically the previously impossible to find 750GB Xserve drives have started showing up on eBay so now of course I want them instead

I'll be running it as 2x3GB as they'll be backed up to standard drives so I don't need a hot spare.
I know it's more of a labor of love as I really like the technology but I can't be bothered to resolve my UNRAID issues and this just works.

A year has passed and my To Do list isn't any shorter but at least some of the items have changed.


1) UPS batteries
2) Install screen
3) Fabric panels on screen wall
4) Wood slat panels on side walls
5) Last set of speakers
6) Far wall matching stub wall panels
7) Bar lighting
8) Stage lighting
9) Complete Insteon setup
10) Curtain / Blind header boxes.
11) Ethernet bridge to router
12) Bass trap(s)
13) Bar stools
14) Screen wall curtains.
15) Raise subwoofers by 1 framing width.
16) Sound treat/paint rear wall behind screen.

You know you're obsessive when it takes you 6 different wood stains before you're happy with the tint of the wood that you're going to use for your curtain headers.......