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<blockquote data-quote="drealit" data-source="post: 512838" data-attributes="member: 70031"><p>Yes, build an UnRaid server (<a href="http://www.lime-technology.com" target="_blank">Digital Media Storage Solutions</a>). It would serve your exact needs: cheap, streaming media, many storage devices, low low power depending on hardware selection, ability to have drives spun down until needed.</p><p></p><p>UnRaid lets you build a cheap affordable server with no serious hardware constraints (no need for expensive hardware raid cards) or forcing you to have the exact same drive for all your storage. You can expand whenever you want up to 20 drives (currently) and use whatever kind of hard drive you'd like: SATA, IDE, 200GB, 2TB, whatever mix and match all you want and whenever you want. Your drives will spin down when not in use so they will use barely any power (the western digital GP series drives use a little over 1W of power when idle I believe). The biggest benefit is parity protection for your array of hard drives... no worries about losing data anymore unless there is more than 1 simultaneous hard drive failure.</p><p></p><p>Look into the product because I firmly stand behind it. It enables people who don't want to throw around a lot of money to have a nice cheap FULLY FUNCTIONAL media server that is amazingly easy to setup and configure.</p><p></p><p>I personally have one based off an older Abit AB9 Pro motherboard (many many onboard SATA connectors) but my friend just built a nice low power ATOM based system based on this: <a href="http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-X7SLAH" target="_blank">SuperBiiz.com - Supermicro X7SLA-H-O Atom 330/ Intel 945GC/ RAID/ V&2GbE/ Flex ATX Motherboard, Retail</a> motherboard and plans on dropping in a few SATA controller cards.</p><p></p><p>If you go this route I highly recommend using the user released add-on called cache_dir... what it does is it caches the data in the user shares on the server so that you can read the data without spinning up the drives. You can browse your entire media catalog without spinning up any drives until you actually play something... and even then it will only spin up the drive/drives it needs in order to playback whatever it was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drealit, post: 512838, member: 70031"] Yes, build an UnRaid server ([url=http://www.lime-technology.com]Digital Media Storage Solutions[/url]). It would serve your exact needs: cheap, streaming media, many storage devices, low low power depending on hardware selection, ability to have drives spun down until needed. UnRaid lets you build a cheap affordable server with no serious hardware constraints (no need for expensive hardware raid cards) or forcing you to have the exact same drive for all your storage. You can expand whenever you want up to 20 drives (currently) and use whatever kind of hard drive you'd like: SATA, IDE, 200GB, 2TB, whatever mix and match all you want and whenever you want. Your drives will spin down when not in use so they will use barely any power (the western digital GP series drives use a little over 1W of power when idle I believe). The biggest benefit is parity protection for your array of hard drives... no worries about losing data anymore unless there is more than 1 simultaneous hard drive failure. Look into the product because I firmly stand behind it. It enables people who don't want to throw around a lot of money to have a nice cheap FULLY FUNCTIONAL media server that is amazingly easy to setup and configure. I personally have one based off an older Abit AB9 Pro motherboard (many many onboard SATA connectors) but my friend just built a nice low power ATOM based system based on this: [url=http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-X7SLAH]SuperBiiz.com - Supermicro X7SLA-H-O Atom 330/ Intel 945GC/ RAID/ V&2GbE/ Flex ATX Motherboard, Retail[/url] motherboard and plans on dropping in a few SATA controller cards. If you go this route I highly recommend using the user released add-on called cache_dir... what it does is it caches the data in the user shares on the server so that you can read the data without spinning up the drives. You can browse your entire media catalog without spinning up any drives until you actually play something... and even then it will only spin up the drive/drives it needs in order to playback whatever it was. [/QUOTE]
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