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2012-06-06, 20:07
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-06, 20:53 by helpermonkey.)
Well - here I am, waiting for my last part to come in so I can slap together the MI7 and I get another bug. Now i'm starting to have second thoughts about my decision to just buy a NAS (i picked up a Netgear RNDP200U-100 ($390) that i'm doing a 2x2 in - total cost of $578). I'm considering returning the NAS or perhaps the whole kit.
I'm not terribly concerned about this anytime soon - but I'm worried that I'll fill this up quicker than i intended and I'm big into buying more power than i need and growing into it. I, like i assume most of you, initially can't imagine how I could fill up 2 Terabytes (I want redundancy) if you paid me to. But I know how these things go and I know how i am.
So for any of you (especially those who thought it wouldn't be you), how quickly did you fill up your drives and how much space did you actually fill up?
The Mi7 (full specs)
HTPC: Antek ISK 300 | Pico 160 | ASRock z77E | i7 3770S | GSkill Ares 8GB | BigShuriken 2 | Crucial 64 SSD
TOYS: Panasonic TC-P58S2 | Onkyo TX-SR608 | Atlantic Tech 2400 | Harmony 1 | iPazzPort ProMini | Mohu 1000 | HomeRun Dual | 2x2TB NAS
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My rig will have 18TB and 2TB Parity .... to me this is way too much! I am only on my 4th drive....
In the case if I ever need to have more... then either will change out the case or build another.... but I doubt that will be for a couple of years....
(maybe just a small one for TV shows.... use the free version of unraid)
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Why I unRaid:
I had pictures, docs, pdfs, mp3, avis, xls,.movies,..etc......eveywhere.
I even had copies on copies,..which then got copied to the same machines and then I had multiple duplicates or triplicates of the same files everywhere.
unRaid allows me to store in one location.
However, I still have backup copies, and I burn emergency DVDs once a month for the critical stuff.
Never trust one solution for your critical data.
As far as your original question: I probably fill up 1TB every 2-3 months. And if I run out of space, I purge old stuff if possible.
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I have 8TB of space nad 4TB of parity. I am about to break the 3TB barrier of used space. This is of movies and tv shows that I have collected over the past year or so.
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I just got into this XMBC thing about two months ago. In that time, I've gone from 0 ripped/transcoded movies to a library of over 500 movies + numerous TV shows. My HTPC has 5TB of storage built in (3TB movie drive, 2TB TV show and other media drive). Both of which are almost full. I'm steadily transcoding my Blu-ray and DVD rips into H.264 and making each movie take up less than half the space they originally did but, that's a slow process and my library is growing faster than I can transcode.
My Unraid is an old computer and I'm out of SATA slots on it, so in order to expand that I am about to build a new system. I'd highly recommend starting out with a platform you will be able to expand far beyond what you can foresee needing in the near future.
HTPC 1 - AMD A8-3870K, ASRock A75M, Silverstone ML03B, Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1866, Crucial M4 64GB SSD
HTPC 2 - HP Stream Mini, 6GB Ram
unRAID 6 Server - Intel Celeron G1610, 20TB Storage