2011-10-18, 18:59
Hey All!
I've been doing quite a bit of research, and have a bit of story and a few questions on what the best options are here. So, right now I have a decent sized library of movies and TV shows - about 1TB at the moment. It's in no sort of order at all... some of the TV shows are bundled into a huge folder called "Season 1" and the file names are similarly sad. Currently, I have a computer running Playon media server and a few 750GB hard drives and use mostly PS3's as my front end.
Lucky for me, I am moving, and the only part of the entire setup I'm bringing with me is the media and one of the PS3s. I'm looking to get everything re-situated into an appropriate option, and I've pretty much settled on XBMC for that. The new house will have Gigabit throughout, with (at the moment) I will need a total of 4 TVs setup and the future to expand up to 7.
My theory at the moment is to attach a drobo to my home network - the Drobo FS with probably 10 TB of storage. My questioning is with what to have on the backend vs the frontend system. I will want sickbeard with SABnzb as well as utorrent and couch potato and (possibly) an HDHomerun system as well attached and the machine managing that.
So, here are my questions for everyone that I haven't been able to come up with a real solid answer on...
1: I know of therenamer and things like that to properly name files - but is there a way to automatically build out the folder structure as well?
2: Given my centralized media server with multiple front ends, is there a way for the metadata to be stored on the server attached in some way to the file, rather than build when the XBMC machine scrapes the library and store it on that machine?
3: In your opinion, would I be better off building a server with storage internal, or using some NAS solution like a drobo to have the media stored someone on a mapped drive?
These are my inital questions... I"m sure I'll get into more.
Thanks so much in advance for reading through this and chipping in any advice that you have... I appreciate it.
Alex
I've been doing quite a bit of research, and have a bit of story and a few questions on what the best options are here. So, right now I have a decent sized library of movies and TV shows - about 1TB at the moment. It's in no sort of order at all... some of the TV shows are bundled into a huge folder called "Season 1" and the file names are similarly sad. Currently, I have a computer running Playon media server and a few 750GB hard drives and use mostly PS3's as my front end.
Lucky for me, I am moving, and the only part of the entire setup I'm bringing with me is the media and one of the PS3s. I'm looking to get everything re-situated into an appropriate option, and I've pretty much settled on XBMC for that. The new house will have Gigabit throughout, with (at the moment) I will need a total of 4 TVs setup and the future to expand up to 7.
My theory at the moment is to attach a drobo to my home network - the Drobo FS with probably 10 TB of storage. My questioning is with what to have on the backend vs the frontend system. I will want sickbeard with SABnzb as well as utorrent and couch potato and (possibly) an HDHomerun system as well attached and the machine managing that.
So, here are my questions for everyone that I haven't been able to come up with a real solid answer on...
1: I know of therenamer and things like that to properly name files - but is there a way to automatically build out the folder structure as well?
2: Given my centralized media server with multiple front ends, is there a way for the metadata to be stored on the server attached in some way to the file, rather than build when the XBMC machine scrapes the library and store it on that machine?
3: In your opinion, would I be better off building a server with storage internal, or using some NAS solution like a drobo to have the media stored someone on a mapped drive?
These are my inital questions... I"m sure I'll get into more.
Thanks so much in advance for reading through this and chipping in any advice that you have... I appreciate it.
Alex
