20TB fileserver (1 Viewer)

[u095538]

My HTPC streams its content from the file-server in my flat (multi-seat setup). I have made a video of the file server; this thread is my shameless advertising to the YouTube video:

20TB Fileserver (YouTube)

The fileserver case is a "Norco-RPC-4220" which has 20 SATAII HDD cages for massive storage...
...tell me what you think!

 

[JoeSmith]

AW: 20TB fileserver

bazinga
nice one

 

[Furetto]

Woooha ! And I thought I had a ridiculous amount of diskspace

 

[DJBlu]

15TB to go for me!

hahaha nice one.

 

[allanp81]

Awesome dude, I'm currently hovering around the 6Tb mark, but once I move I'll definitely look at something a bit more serverish!

 

[u095538]

Thanks for the comments guys

 

[allanp81]

How much of the 20Tb have you used up? What sort of transfer rates do you get? I'm assuming you have gigabit networking as well?

 

[slimmj0k3r]

Excellent setup!

How are you saving your movies? .iso backups? I've been having the hardest time getting subtitles to work on and off as seen in your video. Recently I've been ripping without subs and only keeping forced subs, sucks but it works for now.

 

[NickName]

Very cool. How does it go on electricity usage?

 

[n4orcer]

Just what I was not supposed to see... Been planning something similar for about a year now but never really got that balance of needs/expand/price right. Your solution looks very promising to what I have for demands and my wallet is starting to glow to be used... My Acer Easy-store suddenly looks very small and in need for an upgrade!

Very impressive!

If you do not mind me asking, but what OS do you run, RAID level and do you have any specific software to get everything working smoothly or is it just Windows + Mediaportal?