Anthony, Different mix of drives, throw in the Sans Digital external enclosures, and you pretty much have described my system and use. Not mission critical by any means. But it is set up for convenience for the family to access the movies and TV anywhere in the house. And as much as I complain, I enjoy the building and maintaining as an expensive hobby. Just have to keep the expense in the reasonable arena for the wife!
I was thinking a real hardware RAID might be a more elegant solution the problem, but am now having some doubts as to the expense to implement correctly. Thanks for sharing your experience. Jim [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Q. Martin > > You dudes are so awesome! I'm running a box with 6 3-TB greens, 3 2-TB > Greens, 3 Hitachi 3TB HDS5C3030ALA630s, 1 Seagate 3 TB (ST3000DM001) and > a 750 Samsung boot drive in my movie box. I have another Seagate waiting > to be deployed. All of this is just hanging on sata/esata ports with no raid. > Just Windows 7 homegroup. Drives do have to wake up, so there is an initial > delay sometimes. I have all the locations of titles stored in a spreadsheet, > along with whether it is ISO (blue-ray), folders (DVD), or MKV (TV from blue- > ray). If I get a crash...well, tough dodo. I can't possibly watch it all anyway. > The hardest part to rebuild would be the TV stiff, because bit-perfect rips to > MKV means you have to map the episodes, and that is work. But if I a crash, I > might just forego the episodes and just rip to ISO. Such is life. This is all just > non-critical for me. I must admit that I'm been thinking about burning all > those MKVs to blu-rays! > > I have a poor man's lazy box. :)
