Jim, have you thought about setting up multiple shares instead of multiple
pools? For example, you could have one big drive pool with all your data
but share out any folder on that pool as a separate network share.
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Brian
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Brian Weeden
You guys are so sophisticated! I'm just stringing all my drives off a
PC with external enclosures (10 drives inside the box, 8 more in two
four-bay enclosures). Using 3 and 4 TB drives (greens, mostly, from WD
and seagate). Mine or just NTFS mount volumes all shared over my GB
network.
That's how I started! :) But the desire for ease of use for my family (if
it's not in plain sight, they can't find the drive, folder or location of a
desired movie or TV show) and it just got out of control! A couple of
drives here. A Sans Digital tower there. A new HTPC in the family room.
Anthony, I'd also add to Jim's comments that once you have one big central
drive you can use someting like XBMC to have a very nice interface on all
your HTPCs in the house and accessibility to all your content.
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Brian
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:42 AM, James Maki
I've never combined sans digital with flexraid.. Aren't they creating their own
raid5 internally?
I currently keep 70TB online in flexraid with no issues, I know I had mentioned
it before.
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From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com
Sent: 2/23/2014 8:07 AM
To:
Are you using the SnapRAID function of FlexRAID? If so, how long does it take
for updates to the parity drives?
You are not REQUIRED to use RAID with the Sans Digital port expander towers. I
was using them as JBOD or using Windows 7 build in JBOD function to create a 10
tb ARRAY. When I
Oh...I run XBMC on mine tooI just have to add folders...and you do
that once and you're done. That's when you get a nice interface.
BTW, I had initially ripped to ISO...the I decided I don't want
ISOs...so I'm re-ripping to mkv. That is taking a long time, but I do a
few each day. the
What is the main advantage of XBMC over, for instance, MPC and PowerDVD? It
looks like an interesting program that needs addition investigation on my
part. I support movie only ripping, but my wife and daughter often spend
hours watching the extras from some movies. It takes me extra time to try
In our family we don't really care about extra features or stuff. We have
two small kids, so having all their movies and TV shows on demand is a big
bonus.
What I like about XBMC is that it keeps an entire library of movies and tv
shows up to date, can be sorted by genre or whatever, and can be
