I'm thinking at least mirrored... although the content doesn't change that much and I could use cheap USB drives as the backup medium. That way, the cheap WD model would suffice.Brah wrote:The question gets deeper when you think about backups and RAID.
I have a NAS, and I had good and bad experiences with it.
Are you thinking multi-array?
I have indeed been contemplating this as it could also become my streaming device and with the addition of a drive, play BD's and DVD's. HDMI port to the television and I'm good to go.durain wrote:have you consider using an old PC and fill it up with HDD as your NAS with RAID? check out freenas.org.
also, if you havent got the HDD yet, consider WD Red range of HDD.
Your bottleneck will be:Strong Eagle wrote:I have indeed been contemplating this as it could also become my streaming device and with the addition of a drive, play BD's and DVD's. HDMI port to the television and I'm good to go.durain wrote:have you consider using an old PC and fill it up with HDD as your NAS with RAID? check out freenas.org.
also, if you havent got the HDD yet, consider WD Red range of HDD.
If I were to do this, I need to establish the minimum processor power needed to handle streaming. I've read reports that a lot of Chromebook based devices choke up.
Exactly. Now you can get all the low voltage, low power cpus but few years back it was not that easy and I never liked the idea to run the system that is overpowered. I remember physically cutting some tracks on another Duron to underclock it below 700MHz.durain wrote:wow.. duron CPU is a bit blast from the past
i was using a small form factor (SFF) size PC (a HP dc5700) for the NAS/RAID. it was only running an Intel Core2 Duo CPU and fill it up with 4GB of RAM. freenas load from the usb stick.
more fun to get your hands dirty and learn how it all works.
It is a bit weird because RAID 1 is pure mirroring (2 physical copies of the data on 2 separate hdds) while RAID 0 has no mirroring but has striping (the hdds are combined into one logical drive but the data is read/written from/to both physical drives simultaneously with equal distribution to both of the drives - this boosts the performance). I believe there is no way 1 could go to 0 - 0 should have 2x capacity of 1.Brah wrote:A bit off topic, by my 2-drive RAID 1 set-up has been failing, and I can't determine which drive is bad, and not really sure how to deal with this.
When I connect the drive it shows it is at RAID 1, but when I try to copy off the drive it is extremely slow, and switches to RAID 0.
As it's older (4-5 years?) the hardware is no longer available. If I could I would just get all the data off the unit and onto a new device with backup, I don't really need it RAIDed.
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