Most of the data is images of my DVD collection. I basically keep the originals in storage, and use a copy in the player, since my kids often scratch and/or lose them. I also wanted to make finding a movie easy as sorting through boxes of discs was a pain, and the movie we always wanted was never in it's case even after finding it.
As for finding the movies we wanted easily, this idea failed to work out since so far as I could not keep all the images on 1 machine/drive, so they are spread out over many 500GB external drives, and keeping track of it is not easily manageable. This project, which started 3 years ago, has always been to have 1 massive storage pool to accommodate all my DVD data, plus everything else (work files, music files, photos, backup images, etc..), ie, the ultimate home server storage. At 04:33 AM 03/03/2009, you wrote: >You have 10TB of disks as spare parts, how safe do you need the data to >be and without being seen to be rude what is the data? > >I'm using 1TB mirrored for my data so that I can have it in 3 places at >the same time. > >Adam. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Steve Ellenoff >Sent: 27 February 2009 17:59 >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [NF] Windows Home Server > >Thanks for your suggestion Adam. > >Couple of points here: > >1) I would be building my own WMS server from spare parts ( total out >of pocket is $99 for the OS license and DVD, which is far cheaper >than any NAS solution, except for using FreeNAS ) > >2) I need lots of storage space ( 10 TB easily ) - I don't think most >NAS solutions can come near this figure. > > >At 02:47 AM 02/27/2009, you wrote: > >Short and simple... it's a crock... > > > >It's basically cut down version of WS2K8 with media streaming and a > >backup program for your pc's. > > > >You can only administer it via it's bespoke GUI. > > > >Buy a decent NAS (Say like an ICYBOX or a Synology diskstation) stick >in > >2 * 1TB drives and mirror them then take the $300 you've saved and go > >for a great meal.... > > > >If you've got a spare PC I'm sure there is a evaluation download > >available, it's in the action pack otherwise, I tried it and went down > >the NAS route with 750 GB of data at home. > > > > > > > >Adam. > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > >Behalf Of Steve Ellenoff > >Sent: 26 February 2009 18:27 > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [NF] Windows Home Server > > > >Anyone have any real world experience with this? I just stumbled > >across it yesterday and it sounds great for managing large amounts of > >data (but I'm skeptical because MS can make anything sound better than > >it is). > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
