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<blockquote data-quote="VdR" data-source="post: 427523" data-attributes="member: 25818"><p>My current MP 1.0.1 installation is working absolutely fine (many kudos for the development team), so I need a new project.</p><p></p><p>I'm using an old Dell GX270 as a Media and TV server. The Media server side is a bit basic. It is just has four 500GB external USB drives connected that it shares over the 1GB network. As said, it works perfectly, but it is a bit basic. Only the most critical stuff (i.e. home video and pictures) is backed up from one disk to another.</p><p></p><p>So I was thinking about upgrading this setup and would like your educated opinions.</p><p></p><p>I would like to get a chunk of a tower case with a half way decent MB and plenty of space for HDDs. I would want to run XP Pro SP3 on it (because I have a licence available, and it does the job). I want to add a number of HDDs:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">disk 0: three partitions, two for dual boot (XP Pro, XP Pro) so I can experiment with upgrades and then just switch, one for data.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">disk 1: mirror of disk 0 for redundancy</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">disks 2, 3, 4 and 5: 4x 1TB in a RAID5 setup (this gives me 3TB effective storage right?)</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking of s/w RAID5, which can be set up under XP with a simple hack that can be found on the internet. Or should I go for a h/w RAID controller?</p><p></p><p>The advantage I want to get of the RAID array is redundancy and seeing the collected discs as one volume. I understand that the redundancy is such that if one of the four discs fails I can fully recover. Right? The advantage of the single volume is that I don't need to decide which collection of media goes on which disc and therefore can use the disc space more efficiently.</p><p></p><p>One thing I find anoying is that to set up the RAID array the discs must be empty. So I can't use the discs I have, because I don't know what to do with the data meanwhile (about 1.5 of the 2TB is actually used). Of course it is a good excuse to go to 1TB drives but it is costly. Any suggestions?</p><p></p><p>If it all works well I would also move the tuners and TV server to this setup so I need only one PC running all days.</p><p></p><p>Any other suggestions?</p><p></p><p>VdR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VdR, post: 427523, member: 25818"] My current MP 1.0.1 installation is working absolutely fine (many kudos for the development team), so I need a new project. I'm using an old Dell GX270 as a Media and TV server. The Media server side is a bit basic. It is just has four 500GB external USB drives connected that it shares over the 1GB network. As said, it works perfectly, but it is a bit basic. Only the most critical stuff (i.e. home video and pictures) is backed up from one disk to another. So I was thinking about upgrading this setup and would like your educated opinions. I would like to get a chunk of a tower case with a half way decent MB and plenty of space for HDDs. I would want to run XP Pro SP3 on it (because I have a licence available, and it does the job). I want to add a number of HDDs: [INDENT]disk 0: three partitions, two for dual boot (XP Pro, XP Pro) so I can experiment with upgrades and then just switch, one for data. disk 1: mirror of disk 0 for redundancy disks 2, 3, 4 and 5: 4x 1TB in a RAID5 setup (this gives me 3TB effective storage right?)[/INDENT] I'm thinking of s/w RAID5, which can be set up under XP with a simple hack that can be found on the internet. Or should I go for a h/w RAID controller? The advantage I want to get of the RAID array is redundancy and seeing the collected discs as one volume. I understand that the redundancy is such that if one of the four discs fails I can fully recover. Right? The advantage of the single volume is that I don't need to decide which collection of media goes on which disc and therefore can use the disc space more efficiently. One thing I find anoying is that to set up the RAID array the discs must be empty. So I can't use the discs I have, because I don't know what to do with the data meanwhile (about 1.5 of the 2TB is actually used). Of course it is a good excuse to go to 1TB drives but it is costly. Any suggestions? If it all works well I would also move the tuners and TV server to this setup so I need only one PC running all days. Any other suggestions? VdR [/QUOTE]
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