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| Thread ID: 101659 | 2009-07-22 07:44:00 | Home Media Server - Rackmount? | Parry (5696) | Press F1 |
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| 794081 | 2009-07-23 03:46:00 | Cheers thanks guys. I have a lot of stuff so 8TB would be compressed video + mp3's not just the ISO's. I live in an apartment building so unfortunately cabling is out which would have been ideal in a house as I could then have the server in another room etc. No spare room I'm afraid, all open plan so HTPC would need to be in the lounge. I would like a minimum of combined 10 x 3.5" bays between a PC and server so I could expand to 20TB using 2TB drives. HP MediaSmart Server looks pretty cool but hasn't come to NZ yet and doesn't appear to support 2TB drives yet so thats why a rackmount looked interesting. Chilling, I couldn't find a web site ProCafe.co.nz. Would be good to speak to some experts. Are you able to post the URL? cheers, Graham You cold still put the Media server as far away as you can from where you sit to watch TV; connecting them both with a crossover cable can give you a gigabit connection, and CAT5 can be run up to around 100 metres with no trouble. BTW, did you want to watch TV/use the media centre as a PVR, or is it purely for watching DVD's/Bluray and listening to music? |
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| 794082 | 2009-07-23 04:07:00 | I think you need a Netapp Fibre Channel SAN???? Thats a hell of a lot of storage for home use..I thought I was extravagant with 4 Terabytes. |
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| 794083 | 2009-07-23 07:06:00 | Hi all, thanks very much for all your input. There are certainly a lot more options out there than I had thought. I will go the low tech route at first and simply have unraided HD's on a PC and then have separate backup sources to a NAS or something similar. Many thanks. |
Parry (5696) | ||
| 794084 | 2009-07-27 02:31:00 | Cheers thanks guys. I have a lot of stuff so 8TB would be compressed video + mp3's not just the ISO's. I live in an apartment building so unfortunately cabling is out which would have been ideal in a house as I could then have the server in another room etc. No spare room I'm afraid, all open plan so HTPC would need to be in the lounge. I would like a minimum of combined 10 x 3.5" bays between a PC and server so I could expand to 20TB using 2TB drives. HP MediaSmart Server looks pretty cool but hasn't come to NZ yet and doesn't appear to support 2TB drives yet so thats why a rackmount looked interesting. Chilling, I couldn't find a web site ProCafe.co.nz. Would be good to speak to some experts. Are you able to post the URL? cheers, Graham Graham, You dont need 2 x 8TB for storage the mirroring is a total waste of storage. Save your money and only buy 1 extra drive and run a RAID 5 array where the extra drive is the stripe. If 1 drive fails your array will still work losing no data, you then get a replacement and the array rebuilds its self. In order to get capacity if you are worried and drive number, separate the array into 2 x 4TB, so that is 5 x 1TB each....or 4 x 1.5TB. |
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