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<blockquote data-quote="nzdreamer55" data-source="post: 926063" data-attributes="member: 106790"><p>elsmandino,</p><p> </p><p>My system falls into two areas of drive use, 1) slow long term unchanging storage (movies, archive TV programs e.g. Wings, Cheers, The Bill Cosby Show) and 2)fast (time shifting, recording TV). The use of drive pooling seems like a risky idea when it comes to fast needs so a dedicated HD is what I have, but for archive storage it seems really smart. Right now I manually manage 5 hard drives for space. What a pain! When I fill one up, then I can not think about it, but I really don't keep them filled to the very last byte. There are some small changes every now and then, maybe I find a better copy of a movie that I want or go from standard def file to an HD file or discover that I have 2 copies of a file.</p><p> </p><p>Ideally Drive pooling isn't about writing multiple bits across multiple drives (this is what a RAID configeration is for), it is about presenting the user and applications within a network or computer with 1 point that has the data of multiple areas. It isn't about security or redundency (again this is what a RAID system is for-see Kiwijunglist's comments about SnapRAID).</p><p> </p><p>I'm not in the computer industry so I don't keep up with stuff like some, but I suspect the Drive Pooling idea is starting to make it to regular people as the size of data that people store goes up and the number of drives increases. Microsoft tried to do make it easier on users by giving us libraries (central area where we could link to all our different drive locations for stuff, pictures, videos, documents, etc) but this still fails to blend the different directories together and present them as a unit.</p><p> </p><p>Here is a nice discussion on another forum about the ideas. I just posted here becasue I trust the folks on team-mediaportal and if they are using something then I usually give that a try first.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.avsforum.com/t/1413524/drive-bender-or-drive-pool-which-one-is-better" target="_blank">http://www.avsforum.com/t/1413524/drive-bender-or-drive-pool-which-one-is-better</a></p><p> </p><p>Thanks everyone for your input. Looking forward to the windows 8 stuff. might pay for the driveblend since it seems to be popular until windows 8 is out a while and see how others are using it.</p><p> </p><p>-S</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nzdreamer55, post: 926063, member: 106790"] elsmandino, My system falls into two areas of drive use, 1) slow long term unchanging storage (movies, archive TV programs e.g. Wings, Cheers, The Bill Cosby Show) and 2)fast (time shifting, recording TV). The use of drive pooling seems like a risky idea when it comes to fast needs so a dedicated HD is what I have, but for archive storage it seems really smart. Right now I manually manage 5 hard drives for space. What a pain! When I fill one up, then I can not think about it, but I really don't keep them filled to the very last byte. There are some small changes every now and then, maybe I find a better copy of a movie that I want or go from standard def file to an HD file or discover that I have 2 copies of a file. Ideally Drive pooling isn't about writing multiple bits across multiple drives (this is what a RAID configeration is for), it is about presenting the user and applications within a network or computer with 1 point that has the data of multiple areas. It isn't about security or redundency (again this is what a RAID system is for-see Kiwijunglist's comments about SnapRAID). I'm not in the computer industry so I don't keep up with stuff like some, but I suspect the Drive Pooling idea is starting to make it to regular people as the size of data that people store goes up and the number of drives increases. Microsoft tried to do make it easier on users by giving us libraries (central area where we could link to all our different drive locations for stuff, pictures, videos, documents, etc) but this still fails to blend the different directories together and present them as a unit. Here is a nice discussion on another forum about the ideas. I just posted here becasue I trust the folks on team-mediaportal and if they are using something then I usually give that a try first. [url]http://www.avsforum.com/t/1413524/drive-bender-or-drive-pool-which-one-is-better[/url] Thanks everyone for your input. Looking forward to the windows 8 stuff. might pay for the driveblend since it seems to be popular until windows 8 is out a while and see how others are using it. -S [/QUOTE]
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