Time for an upgrade

Valve1138

Valve1138

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I have a SageTV (www.sagetv.com) network here at the house with 6 client nodes. Basically think Tivo tv viewing type stuff, plus access to any media I put on the server, be it DVD's, music, pics, porn, etc. And since I'm getting close to running out of storage, it's time for an upgrade.

The 700 GB array and multiple individual 300 GB drives in the current server weren't cutting it, and starting to get a bit unruly and unorganized. Plus the exisitng RAID 5 array uses WD JD drives, which after hearing several horror stories of random array failure I want to take out of service, at least in a RAID config.

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I picked up a Highpoint 1820A 8 port RAID card and 8 Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB SATA drives to install in my SageTV server. Should come out to 1.953 TB once I'm done with it. It's setup using RAID 5.

In the pic you can see 4 drives laid out, and 4 in the metal cage to the right. The cage is a Cooler Master 4-in-3 drive cage. The 4 bare drives will also wind up in another 4-in-3 cage.

I'm building the array right now and it should take most of the day. Next I'll copy down the data off the existing drives. After that I'll swap everything around.

This is all going in a Cooler Master CM Stacker which is what my SageTV server is housed in.

This should last me for the forseable future. My goal is to have every DVD and CD in the house available anywhere. :D

I'll post some more pics once it's all done.
 
You are about where I want to be, except that I may have a max of 2 clients in the end. All I really care about is that I have a backup of the mp3s so Ill probably have two 300gb drives non raid for the video, and two in raid for the mp3s and archived divx/dvds.

What type of clients are you using? MVPs or stand alone computers?
 
:drool: :drool: :drool:

more info on the clients plz, are they headless loonix boxes or full systems?
 
distortedmind said:
:drool: :drool: :drool:

more info on the clients plz, are they headless loonix boxes or full systems?
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Linux can go blow an old person. :D

The clients all run Windows XP, it's what I know, and they run extremely well.

Two them are 3 Ghz class boxes and can render HD from the OTA HD tuner I have in the server.

One is a Celeron 2.0 Ghz

The one in the kitchen is a Via EPIA M, which is slow as shit.

Another is an Ahtlon XP 2500+

They all have 512 MB ram and what ever hard drive I could find.

Basically full systems built around a lot of my spare hardware, except for the two 3 Ghz nodes. No KB or mouse, just a StreamZap remote for control.
 
So being that I'm not a tech junkie at all, what the hell is this thread about? What did you just build? And why?
 
Sarcasmo said:
So being that I'm not a tech junkie at all, what the hell is this thread about? What did you just build? And why?
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he just built a huge e-penis, so large even your ass couldn't house it :p
 
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