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7% |
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2% |
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28% |
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10% |
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10% |
[ 4 ] |
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41% |
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Zebu Fellenz
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: When is enough, enough? (Media Storage) |
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How much media storage do you have for your HTPC? Is it enough? Can it ever be enough?
Just wondering what others are doing, hopefully you guys will once again be able to prove that I am not crazy, or at least that there are other crazy people like me out there... 
I have about 3TB right now, and I'm planning on hopefully bumping that up to between 6 and 10 by this time next year.
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nuttall_chris
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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You need another option, greater than 10TB...I have 11TB of space currently in my media server with ~10TB used.
Chris.
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Mr. Green
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Posts: 1394
Location: Calgary
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Well, with 2 TB drives now in the $150 range, it's a lot cheaper than it used to be. I only have 1 TB for the PC and 1TB for the PVR expander (TV). The PC is only at about 500GB used. I refuse to put movies on it.
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Zebu Fellenz
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:42 am Post subject: |
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| nuttall_chris wrote: | You need another option, greater than 10TB...I have 11TB of space currently in my media server with ~10TB used.
Chris. |
Oops, thought I had that option... 
I'll get that fixed.
Edit- it doesn't seem I can edit the poll so we'll just have to put you in your own special unpolled group. 
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MikeEby
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Posts: 5237
Location: Osceola, Indiana
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I'll vote on more then 10 TB also.
I'm at 5TB right now...Be adding more soon.
Mike
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Zebu Fellenz
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| MikeEby wrote: | | I'll vote on more then 10 TB also. |
I'm with you completely on that, if prices hit <$100 for >/=2TB sometime in the next year I'll likely be going for at least 10TB, all thanks to your excellent EAC3To GUI 
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JustGreg
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Kenosha, WI
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I have around 1TB across a few drives but then I don't store anything on the HTPC. I keep it all on disk. I know...it isn't a REAL media server but I just hate the thought of putting all my eggs in one basket.
I've thought of setting it up as a RAID array but I saw how HDD prices were dropping so decided to hold off until I can do 40TB across redundant drives.
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WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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I no longer buy hard drives 1TB or under, and I stopped buying one drive at a time a couple of years ago. Just before Xmas I bought a pair of 1.5TB drives. Before that, I bought four 1TB drives.
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emdawgz1
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| nuttall_chris wrote: | You need another option, greater than 10TB...I have 11TB of space currently in my media server with ~10TB used.
Chris. |
10 Terabytes?!?!?
I'd bet that there are local TV stations that dont have that much storage!
WTH do you have on your server?!?!? 
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WanMan
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Hah, you would be surprised what can be found on 10TB of storage.
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dturco
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
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| nuttall_chris wrote: | You need another option, greater than 10TB...I have 11TB of space currently in my media server with ~10TB used.
Chris. |
My god that's a lot of Porn 
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nuttall_chris
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| emdawgz1 wrote: | | nuttall_chris wrote: | You need another option, greater than 10TB...I have 11TB of space currently in my media server with ~10TB used.
Chris. |
10 Terabytes?!?!?
I'd bet that there are local TV stations that dont have that much storage!
WTH do you have on your server?!?!? |
At an average of 25GB for each Bluray, thats only 400 disks and I only rip the main feature, if I ripped the entire disk it would be maybe 250 to 300 disks.
My server will only support 12 drives and I'm at 11 now, 9-1TB, 1-1.5TB and 1-500MB system drive. I was hoping to see drives larger than 2TB hit the market before I needed to start replacing the 1TB drives but it looks like I'm going to run out of room first. I'll need to decide weather it's better to upgrade my server to accomodate more drives or start replacing the 1TB drives with 2TB drives....
Chris.
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ralpharch
Joined: 02 Nov 2007
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Location: Derwood
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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I answered 4-6 but only 1/2 of that is available as networked attached storage or in pc's. Over 1/2 is stored in bare hard drives that I just use a USB dongle to connect or a removable HD bay when I want one of those movies (I have them indexed on IMDB so I know what bare drive they are on.
Why have all that storage available to spin instantly; versus plugging it in? I just don't need that much spinning.
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nuttall_chris
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| ralpharch wrote: | I answered 4-6 but only 1/2 of that is available as networked attached storage or in pc's. Over 1/2 is stored in bare hard drives that I just use a USB dongle to connect or a removable HD bay when I want one of those movies (I have them indexed on IMDB so I know what bare drive they are on.
Why have all that storage available to spin instantly; versus plugging it in? I just don't need that much spinning. |
I have all my drives set to spin down when not in use. But I do agree that external usb storage is another option. But it may not be as cost effective as internal drives, USB hard drives ususally cost more or if buying bare drives and mounting in enclosers, the cost of the enclosers needs to be taken into account.
Chris.
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ralpharch
Joined: 02 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| nuttall_chris wrote: | I have all my drives set to spin down when not in use. But I do agree that external usb storage is another option. But it may not be as cost effective as internal drives, USB hard drives ususally cost more or if buying bare drives and mounting in enclosers, the cost of the enclosers needs to be taken into account.
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I have like 25 bare drives and one usb dongle (ide and usb cable) w power for any computer and one one computer with an HD enclosure with a removable tray that I can swap the drives into easily as it has an ide ribbon (serial ata is an option as well) and power connector) - so the cost is minimal besides the bare drive cost
I also have maybe 3 usb drives but I agree they are costly compared with bare drives but convenient
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nuttall_chris
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ralpharch wrote: | | nuttall_chris wrote: | I have all my drives set to spin down when not in use. But I do agree that external usb storage is another option. But it may not be as cost effective as internal drives, USB hard drives ususally cost more or if buying bare drives and mounting in enclosers, the cost of the enclosers needs to be taken into account.
Chris. |
I have like 25 bare drives and one usb dongle (ide and usb cable) w power for any computer and one one computer with an HD enclosure with a removable tray that I can swap the drives into easily as it has an ide ribbon (serial ata is an option as well) and power connector) - so the cost is minimal besides the bare drive cost
I also have maybe 3 usb drives but I agree they are costly compared with bare drives but convenient |
I actually have one of these;
http://pccyber.com/?v=product&i=RACK-TT-N0028USU
I use it for bare drives, it has an e-SATA port on it and you can hot swap the drives.
Chris.
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huggy
Joined: 02 Aug 2008
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Location: Melbourne,Australia
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9 tb's here and counting
I have a hard drive docking station for the p.c in my theatre and for my egreat Media player in the living room.This way I can watch some series and docos on the plasma when I dont feel like being in the theatre.
Dave
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Mark_A_W
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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4 TBs and I'm chockers 
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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2TB Hitachi's on sale at Newegg...can't find the coupon now but I think they were $170 each.
I have 3TB worth of Hitachi's now and haven't had a hiccup in over a year.
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VideoGrabber
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
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Location: Michigan
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Zebu wrote about Chris:
> we'll just have to put you in your own special unpolled group <
And you'll have to add me to that group as well. I'll just say "over 10 TB", but if your poll was logarithmic, you'd need another 4 notches.
I buy nothing smaller than 1.5 TB drives now (doesn't make sense on a $/GB basis), but did pick up a 2 TB WD on sale for ~$125 during the post Thanksgiving sales ($140, minus Bing @10%). Both the Samsung and WD 1.5 TB "green" drives can be had for $100 or less, most of the time.
I'll probably avoid buying many of the 2 TB drives as long as I can... primarily because incoming burn-in testing takes so long (~23 hours), and I never put a drive into service without 100% pre-qual tests first.
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