A curse on top posters! I sort of disagree with this... haven't seen 200GB disks for ages anywhere!
1TB disks are under $150 each now. I go for simplicity rather than saving the odd $50 and mirror the server - which is raid 10 - using a remote raid 5 box, and a cheap WD green 5 port gigabyte switch. Overkill for most households, but I have the luxury of working from home most of the time! I also save the really important stuff to a remote server in Texas. If you haven't come across snapback2, I really like it as a simple, space-effective backup method. The biggest problem I have is rats chewing the cabling. Walnut trees. Always attracts them. I think freenas is going linux kernel soon, if it hasn't already. This'll make it much more workable, as the lack of hardware support was really annoying. Steve On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:31 +1300, Craig Falconer wrote: > 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? > > -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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