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Re: RAID setup?
I'm actually in the process of doing something similar. I have a movie collection of around 7 TB. I have been using a super old PC running Windows Home Server and using there duplication feature. So I have around 16TB of drives in all different sizes. I've had a few disk failures over the years, but with the duplication, I haven't lost anything yet.
But I'm not really happy with Windows Home Server. Doesn't seem to really fit my needs. I'm building a new server that will run on freeNAS. I'm planning on using 4 x 3TB drives in a Raid 5 setup. I'm going to use the RaidZ software raid that is part of the freeNAS operating system. Once I get everything copied over (which will probably take weeks) then I'll rip apart the old server and use some of those drives to make an additional backup on.
Storing blu-ray rips can chew up a lot of space, but I'm also not happy with most of the compressed blu-ray copies I've seen. Even an 8GB compressed blu-ray movie still looks like crap to me. I want the best quality possible for my movies, so I leave them uncompressed. And hence I'm stuck dealing with all this space.
I also have about 70 HD-DVDs in my collection. I still wish they would of won the format war, but oh well. LOL As long as I can find software to run them, I'm gonna watch them.
I'm still in the early stages of building this new server, I'll report back when I'm done.
later,
Curt
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