You need to rate your data's importance too.
Server 1 - file/etc
2x200 GB drives in a RAID1 for my important stuff
1TB for exported myth recordings (long term storage)
200 GB system drive
Server 2 - mythtv and backups
500 GB for myth live recordings (expires over time)
250GB for backups
40GB system drive
So while I'd like to raid everything, I can't afford that.
Only the important stuff is on a raid, then backed up to another disk,
which is then off-sited on a USB drive.
How much important data do you have?
We have been toying with freenas and openfiler lately, using iSCSI and
NFS and cifs to access disks over the network. Works nicely, but its
another box....
New drives aren't too bad these days - consider a couple of 1-2TB drives
in a raid1 for all your data. Depends on budget.
Nick Rout wrote, On 09/02/10 16:27:
OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have:
2 compaq small form factor boxes, one freebsd and one linux, each with
a 300G hard drive for videos. (PATA)
2 external usb hard drives with 300 SATA and 250G PATA respectively.
(each has a brick power supply)
1 mythtv backend box in a tower with a 1TB SATA drive (for tv) and a
750G SATA drive (for videos and music)
These plus a cable modem and router under the stairs contribute
significantly to global warming and power consumption. I'd like to
rationalise this, particularly the 2 compaq boxes and the external
drives. The mythtv box I will pretty well leave alone, its working and
the one mantra about mythtv is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
I am wondering about turnkey NAS systems, maybe something to hold
everything that's not in the myth backend box. Ignoring the operating
systems that's about (300+300+300+250 = 1.15T) - so to allow headroom
and avoid the same problem again later I figure something with 2-4TB
would be needed. But that'll cost quite a bit I imagine, and then I'll
have all those drives left over and nothing in particular to do with
them unless I foolishly start down the same track again...
OTOH I could resurrect a tower from the garage with an IDE
motherboard, get a PCI SATA card and shove all those drives in one
box, and maybe a couple more besides.
Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this?
--
Craig Falconer
