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Thread ID: 139297	2015-04-08 23:37:00	File Sharing issues, NAS recommendations	dugimodo (138)	Press F1

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1398249	2015-04-08 23:37:00	This post will ramble a bit sorry. Basically I'm trying to figure out how to best store my ever growing media collection. I'm not too concerned about backups as everything is replaceable but I think some sort of protection from drive failure might be worth it. I have a very random collection of data that needs tidying up. Some important data I do back up. Specific questions at the bottom. In the past I've basically just kept increasing the storage in my PC and kept everything on it and have not really worried too much about backups or drive failure protection. Currently everything is split between a ~5TB windows storage space I've been experimenting with on windows 10 technical preview on a secondary machine and a single 4TB hard drive in my gaming PC. The storage space is functionally similar to RAID 5 but write performance is atrocious (9-20 Mbps usually < 10). Total collection size at the moment is probably in the 5-7TB range. Some stuff is sitting on other drives as well The trouble with rearranging storage is finding enough space to temporarily put things, using single drives instead of arrays is easier in this respect. Things I have I can use for storage; 4 bay USB 3.0 Hard drive enclosure I was using but after one of the drives randomly lost it's partition and showed up as RAW unformatted I don't really trust it (drive tests fine and google finds others have had this issue with this enclosure) 4 x 2TB WD Green drives - were in the enclosure, currently used for the storage space 1 x 2TB Seagate green drive 1 x 4TB seagate barracude 2 x 500GB and 1 x 1TB 2.5" external drives 1 x 1TB seagate SSHD hybrid, was my boot drive before going full SSD, hasn't had much use 1 x 1TB samsung 7200 - bit old and slow 1 x netgear 2 bay NAS with no drives in it, takes up to 2TB drives but is slow and has a terrible interface (I understand other models are better) might put the samsung in it and use as an audio server. PC's that could be used as a NAS and or media player 1 x intel itx board with core 2 duo and 2gb of RAM, 4 x SATA and an add in card with 2 x SATA currently running XP home 1 x AMD A5 5800 with 4GB of RAM, GTX 960, currently running windows 10 technical preview So, on to the questions if anyone is still reading; Should I repurpose the itx machine or AMD as a NAS and if so using what OS? freeNAS sounds good but I am nervous about recovering data from the drives if the NAS hardware dies. The AMD machine is a bit power hungry for this I think. Should I buy a 4 bay NAS and start populating it with WD Red drives? not a cheap option and if I do this can the storage be expanded as needed or would it have to be rebuilt each time? Any recommendations? As an experiment the machine running XP has file sharing enabled and works ok for any files already in the shared directory but any files moved into the folder by the Deluge torrent client are not accessible unless I copy them out and back in again, any Idea why this might be? I had thought a cheap option would be to fill this PC with drives and share them with the workgroup and drive it remotely with teamviewer. That all works except for the issue mentioned. sorry for the wall of text, anyone have any thoughts?	dugimodo (138)
1398250	2015-04-09 01:04:00	Have a look at amahi its free and can run headless as mine does.	gary67 (56)
1398251	2015-04-09 01:59:00	I'd use (and do use) windows with DriveBender (www.division-m.com) . Allows you to take a bunch of differing sized disks and making it into one drive. Then at a folder level you can set folder to be duplicated to two disks. While it wont have the speed advantage of a raid system - all the disks are NTFS formatted...so in the event your rig dies you can just take each individual disk out and read it with something. You just need to hunt through each one to find the content - but at least isn't not in some proprietary format, or could only be read by the same raid hardware etc. As for media, I'd just put plex on the host and be done wi	psycik (12851)
1398252	2015-04-09 02:36:00	I don't like plex much, I do like PS3 media server though and will probably use that. Drivebender looks interesting. I may upgrade the XP machine to a newer version of windows and look at using that. Anyone have any Idea why new files added into a shared folder on XP by a torrent program are not able to be accessed? If I copy them manually or move them into a subfolder they work but not if I just let the torrent client do it.	dugimodo (138)
1398253	2015-04-09 04:51:00	Amahi Here (http://www.amahi.org/) can pool all drives so they operate as one for max storage. I am running it on an old Pentium 4 with 2Gb RAM as a backup on one drive and a media server on the other drive. But you can add as many drives as you want, I'm not using the pooled storage option though. It will store in whatever format you want to use. I store Images of our computers created with Active@ and then backup all folders as they are on our data drives. In the media drive music is stored as .flac and I an remove the drives and read them with any other computer if I need to.	gary67 (56)
1398254	2015-04-09 06:19:00	Dugimodo, if its network access, its probably a cache of the filesystem being read, could be the same for local too, but usually forcing it to refresh works, if its a specific program, then a full restart of that program as it too could use a cached filesystem. My media server I usually have to restart it for new media to be found as I stopped it checking the library every hour, its quite slow when you have a large library. 40,000+ items. Although, sounds like ownership issues, not sure what windows is like with permissions but maybe see if you can get the torrent program to ignore permissions as its probably keeping that info from the sharer who created it. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
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