I'm currently using a laptop with 4 external 2 TB drives for storage of 215,000 Flac and MP3 files.
Things are a bit unwieldy and backup is time consuming. Each drive takes 12-24 hours to backup over USB 2.0. I need to add another drive soon as I am running over about 7 TB of actual files. Any ideas as to what would be a more efficient system for storage and backup (and possibly the server)??? I've thought about getting a custom-built server computer with at least 10-15 TB of internal storage and backup via a USB 3.0 external hard dock. The hard drives would be of the slower energy efficient variety and get a energy efficient processor. I'm not crazy about a NAS because of the vagaries of running LMS on a nonstandard OS and a very low-power processor. Let me know your thoughts. Happy Holidaze. http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.org http://www.last.fm/user/zzzoneDOTnet http://somethingsomethingsomething.net dBpoweramp Cisco E4200 SBS 7.8 - i5 laptop - Win 7 64bit 3 Booms, 2 Radio, 1 Touch, 1 iPod Touch w/digital dock 2 controllers, various tablets/phones Various apps including iPeng, Logitech Android, etc. 'Library' (http://zzzone.net/photo/2009/music1.jpg): 215,000+ FLAC/MP3 files - 2TB external HD x 4 Onkyo TX-NR818, KEF Q300/Q200/iQ30, Outlaw LFM-1 Plus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimzak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
