Re: 20 Bay 4U case unRAID build

["keyvan2r" <k1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you.
I think I have posted here before about my issues with WHS and streaming
HD.
I have now been using unraid on a 7 disk modified (drive cages) desktop
since last June.
The system has behaved flawlessly for my purposes - it just works - has not
fallen over yet!!. I can stream to 5 (most clients I have) and disks all
spin down one hour (selectable) after the movie has finished playing. All
the database management is done on a little aton powered whs box so I
dont't wake up the disks for browsing titles, so I don't worry too much
about heat & power and with
cost of 2tb drives coming down and the number of bluray releases going up
it starts to make sense.
There is a good support community on the forum and some very useful add-ons
if you don't mind a tiny bit of cli linux.
It gives me some fault tolerance without a high space overhead. It's
hardware agnostic - if a motherboard or a sata host card fails, I don't
have to worry about finding the exact model/make raid card. I can rebuild
the system using any unraid supported hardware.

So I have to say my experiences of Unraid are so far so good. At some point
I have to settle on a large capacity storage solution for my movie
collection at home. I think for me the unraid box will last for a few years
- my collection would have to increase four-fold before I need to look at
another box.
K

>
> Nice pictures.
>
> There's also Flexraid http://www.flexraid.com/ if you want an
> alternative to Unraid
>
> I've only managed an 8 disk media server like the AutomatedHome
jukebox
> though I'm using FreeBSD and ZFS instead of Unraid. Will be
interesting
> to hear your experiences of Unraid.
>
> If you need some more reading on the various options...
>
> There's a long thread here
> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1071162
>
> And lots of others here
> http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29
>
> Regards
> Simon
>




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