That second approach seems most attractive to me...right now. Isn't
there a way to use a parity drive to track the others for a rebuild, if
needed? I'd like the other drives to all go to sleep except the one
serving the file. Using NTFS mount points just sounds like the right
way for me.
On 7/27/2011 9:46 AM, Greg Sevart wrote:
The best approach certainly is difficult to answer. I'm running a number of
arrays--the newest of which is based on a 16-port Areca 1880ix controller
and 12x 2TB Hitachi drives in RAID6. 20T usable, over 1000MB/s reads and
writes.
If you really aren't worried about redundancy, then you could go as simple
as running on your onboard + cheap basic PCIe SATA controllers and use
spanning or striping within Windows, or use NTFS mount points to mount your
additional drives as subfolders somewhere else on your filesystem.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 7:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Lots of hard drives
Yeah, I have usb3.0 box in here that takes 4 HDs, so in theory I could
go upto 12 TB in that, but only have 4TB in there now, each drive with
its own drive letter. But with current prices, 8TB max seems reasonable
now. But what if I want to go to 50TB?
On 7/27/2011 8:23 AM, Richard Quilhot wrote:
I'm using external usb drives myself for a total storage of 3.5tb.
Rick Q
[email protected]
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Anthony Q.
Martin<[email protected]>wrote:
Windows. Don't need redundancy on the blu-ray folders, I own all the
content so if a crash occurs I'll just rebuild (I'd like to rebuild
just the
crashed out part). I'm going to media browser on top of WMC to get to
the
files. I'd like to be able to stream as much as my home network will
allow...is disk space/speed a limitation there? I could see myself
streaming to two locations at most, presently.
On 7/27/2011 6:18 AM, Julian Zottl wrote:
How big do you want the RAID to get (# of drives that is)? I presume
enough performance to stream one bluray... or will you be doing
multiple?
Windows/Linux? Redundancy?
----
Julian
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Anthony Q.
Martin<[email protected]>**
wrote:
What is the best way to add lots of drives to a computer, with the
goal
being to create a huge space for ripped blu-rays?
I don't think my mobo has sata connectors for more than 4-6. I
assume
I
need a PCI-E card of some sort. What's best? I don't intend to build
it
out
at once...just over time.
