Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-16 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
I have a freenas ZFS instance based on low-cost components and ecc memory and old 2 TB drives. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132097 MB 38usd AMD Athlon 5350 2.05 GHz Quad core - 44usd Memory 2*8GB ECC RAM *http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168202

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Courville, Daniel
John Leonard wrote: > anyone got any reasonably-priced suggestions for storage? Once production is done, to save space, I FLAC everything (or WavPack it when it's more than eight channel or 24 bit). - Daniel ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.v

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Bloomberg
Haven't tried the OS X packages but you should be able to add an HBA and a supermicro (or other) enclosure and do it much the same as with Linux or BSD. It looks like the OS X builds are actively maintained still. That said there's many more folks using Solaris, Linux and BSD. Ben On Friday, Apr

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Steven Boardman
Ah i forgot about ZFS RAID Z. Has anyone had success using it on random enclosures with mac osx? Steve On 15 Apr 2016 7:03 pm, "Ben Bloomberg" wrote: > > I would argue that ZFS is superior to RAID in almost all situations these > days. -- next part -- An HTML attachment w

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread mgraves
Hereabouts we are very enamored of the 4 disk FreeNAS Mini appliance, which is a hardware+software solution that includes ZFS. Michael - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours? From: "Ben Bloomberg" Date: 4/15/16 1:02 pm To:

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Steven Boardman
Raid 5 disk array mirrored at a different location. This gives great speed, (it writes and reads to all disks at once), redundancy (one drive can fail in each array, giving time to hot replace) and space (only 1 drive in each array is used for parity). If you need a little cloud storage then mega g

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Bloomberg
I would argue that ZFS is superior to RAID in almost all situations these days. Ben On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier < netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote: > On 04/15/2016 07:09 PM, John Leonard wrote: > >> A question: >> >> Most of my recording is now 4 four or six channel 96/

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Bloomberg
An HP Microserver with FreeNAS is a great way to get a ZFS cluster running. ZFS is a great filesystem for archiving media. I have machines running pools ranging from 500GB to 144TB. They can scale and grow really easily. You can run pretty nicely with a cheap i3 CPU and a decent LSI HBA. A 16 TB

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/15/2016 07:09 PM, John Leonard wrote: A question: Most of my recording is now 4 four or six channel 96/24 and currently, I back up from the recorders to bare hard drives via an eSATA docking station, which means that I have an every-increasing pile of hard drives, as I back up every thing

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Michael Chapman
> A question: > messy and b) a bit of a risk. You want bright ideas, so apologies for string nd sealing wax: 1) If you have everything twice: -in many countries bank safety deposit boxes are quite cheap (for one set) -my solution was to post a set to an understanding aged relative (after the fu

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Rudy Chalupa
eonard To: Surround Sound discussion group Sent: Fri, Apr 15, 2016 1:09 pm Subject: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours? A question:Most of my recording is now 4 four or six channel 96/24 and currently, I back up from the recorders to bare hard drives via an eSATA docking station, which means that

[Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread John Leonard
A question: Most of my recording is now 4 four or six channel 96/24 and currently, I back up from the recorders to bare hard drives via an eSATA docking station, which means that I have an every-increasing pile of hard drives, as I back up every thing important twice. I’ve pretty much standardi