jimzak wrote: > 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 I > would specify an 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. I have 6TB but not all is taken as I prune video rather quickly, however my setup might be of interest to you. I've got Mediasonic Raid box that can take up to 4 drives, I know they have enclosures that can take up to 8. In a common raid 5 configuration with 3TB drives that will give you potentially 20TB give or take. This enclosures have their own raid controller and connect to a PC either via usb3 or eSata. I have my 6TB connected to a simple Acer nettop which serves it to the network as a NFS storage via gigabyte (it could be served via Samba for Windows). You do not need a lot of power to run network storage. My slim server runs on another server (with more horse power) so scans and directory browsing is snappy. Acer nettop runs linux.
Mediasonic Raid enclosure that I have does not provide great write speeds after a while when data is fragmented among the drives, but after initial backup, rsync should (or the other canned programs that do the same) relatively quickly sync your backup and main storage as it only goes after the differences and not a mirror backup. You could use Mediasonic as your backup device, I'm using it as a main storage server and have rsync backups to docked drives via usb2. Would like to purchase another Mediasonic just for the backups but I'm trying to economize. Good luck and how many hours do you need to listen to all that flac that you have ? :-) George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Yamaha RX-V673 -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers -> Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------ matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100561 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
