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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 994036" data-attributes="member: 76888">You can always undelete from the recycle bin as running a scheduled update will not remove things from the recycle bin.&nbsp;Also if you are using a mirrored system and you want to undelete something after you have mirrored the files you would run into exactly the same problem.[DOUBLEPOST=1368671374][/DOUBLEPOST]&nbsp;Gigabit network would make more of a difference compared to faster sata ports as a non gigabit network connection would be the slowest point in the chain. However, you don't even need gigabit network to play a high bitrate HD file over the network. If you think about it a movie is 2 hours long and the file size would be anywhere between 700mb (SD) to 50,000mb (HD bluray). A standard network connection can copy 50gb in 2 hours easily and you don't need a fast hard drive for that either.&nbsp;If you want to transcode files on the fly then you would need to run some sort of media sharing software on the fileserver. I can't remember if transcoding can be offloaded to the fileserver's video card, or if it is entirely done by the CPU, either way if you are transcoding then you will need a slightly faster hardware in the fileserver.&nbsp;PS. I use snapraid to cover against single hard drive failure. I run a backup one or twice per week or after I add a lot of movies. I don't use snapraid with any files that change frequently, eg. live tv recordings / my music folder. The idea is, that if one of my many 3TB HDDs die then I will only lose any files that have been added to that individual 3TB HDD since my last backup. I wouldn't care if I lost 1-2 movies, but I would care if I lost 300 movies.&nbsp;I wouldn't put any files that change frequently on the snapraid array or stuff like photos which I prefer to have 2 copies of on two different computers.&nbsp; Snapraid can work with partitions as well so you could just partition off 500gb for your photos + music.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 994036, member: 76888"] You can always undelete from the recycle bin as running a scheduled update will not remove things from the recycle bin. Also if you are using a mirrored system and you want to undelete something after you have mirrored the files you would run into exactly the same problem.[DOUBLEPOST=1368671374][/DOUBLEPOST] Gigabit network would make more of a difference compared to faster sata ports as a non gigabit network connection would be the slowest point in the chain. However, you don't even need gigabit network to play a high bitrate HD file over the network. If you think about it a movie is 2 hours long and the file size would be anywhere between 700mb (SD) to 50,000mb (HD bluray). A standard network connection can copy 50gb in 2 hours easily and you don't need a fast hard drive for that either. If you want to transcode files on the fly then you would need to run some sort of media sharing software on the fileserver. I can't remember if transcoding can be offloaded to the fileserver's video card, or if it is entirely done by the CPU, either way if you are transcoding then you will need a slightly faster hardware in the fileserver. PS. I use snapraid to cover against single hard drive failure. I run a backup one or twice per week or after I add a lot of movies. I don't use snapraid with any files that change frequently, eg. live tv recordings / my music folder. The idea is, that if one of my many 3TB HDDs die then I will only lose any files that have been added to that individual 3TB HDD since my last backup. I wouldn't care if I lost 1-2 movies, but I would care if I lost 300 movies. I wouldn't put any files that change frequently on the snapraid array or stuff like photos which I prefer to have 2 copies of on two different computers. Snapraid can work with partitions as well so you could just partition off 500gb for your photos + music. [/QUOTE]

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