Hello forum friends,
Going from just getting my feet wet with media streaming less than a year ago, I sort of took to it and now I have a dilemma.
I guess I was thinking "too small" from the get-go and simply built an htpc/sever for my media. I just kept adding drives and ended up with the following:
Five 2TB drives for movies (generally high bitrate MKVs and bluray ISOs) (60% full on average)
One 1.5TB drive for documentaries and such (50% full)
One 1.5TB drive for television shows (50% full)
……and no backup or RAID of any kind for data security. It wasn't a real consideration for me when I started, but now it is something I keep thinking about.
I have decided to spend some more money on this project and was wondering if folks had some suggestions on how I should proceed.
Considerations:
1) I think I have enough drive space, though I see myself maybe adding one more 2TB movie drive at some point in the future. I have room for two more drives in my pc case and two free ports on my Supermicro 8 port SATA card.
2) I need some sort of redundancy – I am willing to buy seven more drives if need be to do this.
3) I'd like to keep using the existing pc in some capacity because I do some transcoding and surfing on it.
4) Anything eSATA or NAS seems like it would probably work as I have Cat6 run in the house and usually access my media with a couple Popcorn Hour streamers.
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I was thinking of maybe getting something like this 8 bay SATA enclosure and just filling it with 2TB drives and doing one to one mirroring for backups:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-016-_-Product
It would mean an extra "box," but that isn't too big of a deal since I will put it in a closet out of sight.
If anyone has any other suggestions or solutions, I would appreciate hearing them.
Thanks,
David
Going from just getting my feet wet with media streaming less than a year ago, I sort of took to it and now I have a dilemma.
I guess I was thinking "too small" from the get-go and simply built an htpc/sever for my media. I just kept adding drives and ended up with the following:
Five 2TB drives for movies (generally high bitrate MKVs and bluray ISOs) (60% full on average)
One 1.5TB drive for documentaries and such (50% full)
One 1.5TB drive for television shows (50% full)
……and no backup or RAID of any kind for data security. It wasn't a real consideration for me when I started, but now it is something I keep thinking about.
I have decided to spend some more money on this project and was wondering if folks had some suggestions on how I should proceed.
Considerations:
1) I think I have enough drive space, though I see myself maybe adding one more 2TB movie drive at some point in the future. I have room for two more drives in my pc case and two free ports on my Supermicro 8 port SATA card.
2) I need some sort of redundancy – I am willing to buy seven more drives if need be to do this.
3) I'd like to keep using the existing pc in some capacity because I do some transcoding and surfing on it.
4) Anything eSATA or NAS seems like it would probably work as I have Cat6 run in the house and usually access my media with a couple Popcorn Hour streamers.
___
I was thinking of maybe getting something like this 8 bay SATA enclosure and just filling it with 2TB drives and doing one to one mirroring for backups:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-016-_-Product
It would mean an extra "box," but that isn't too big of a deal since I will put it in a closet out of sight.
If anyone has any other suggestions or solutions, I would appreciate hearing them.
Thanks,
David