Tengis
Supreme [H]ardness
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- Jun 11, 2003
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I bought one of these things for $75 brand new (awesome deal) and its been working pretty well to store and stream my files from:
WD My Book Live 3tb
Up until I bought that I just had all the media in shared folders on my main pc. Ide like to build a file server running Linux with a raid5 setup just in case drives fail. Part of me has been thinking that if the WD drive really works well enough for me as a network drive that I could just get another one or even one of their dual network drives that you can set up a raid 1 in.
Even though Ive got gigabit ethernet connected to everything I like the idea of having all of the media locally stored on the machine simply because of the speed. Thoughts on locally stored vs network? What are you guys using to implement decent reliable raid that doesn't break the bank? I haven't set up raid on any personal machines since my old Abit KR7a-Raid motherboard back in the day and I really don't want to spend a bunch of money on a decent raid card.
I know if I have a dedicated file server I could install Linux and have torrents and whatnot running all the time without issue. Im sure I could think of some other neat things to do with the machine as well.
WD My Book Live 3tb
Up until I bought that I just had all the media in shared folders on my main pc. Ide like to build a file server running Linux with a raid5 setup just in case drives fail. Part of me has been thinking that if the WD drive really works well enough for me as a network drive that I could just get another one or even one of their dual network drives that you can set up a raid 1 in.
Even though Ive got gigabit ethernet connected to everything I like the idea of having all of the media locally stored on the machine simply because of the speed. Thoughts on locally stored vs network? What are you guys using to implement decent reliable raid that doesn't break the bank? I haven't set up raid on any personal machines since my old Abit KR7a-Raid motherboard back in the day and I really don't want to spend a bunch of money on a decent raid card.
I know if I have a dedicated file server I could install Linux and have torrents and whatnot running all the time without issue. Im sure I could think of some other neat things to do with the machine as well.