<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/21 Yan Seiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">[snip 'look at the size of that thing!!' :)]<br>
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</div>LOL!<br>
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Well, sort of... It's because I may need to.<br>
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I not only store TV shows, I do commercial backups for companies. Sort<br>
of like <a href="http://rsync.net" target="_blank">rsync.net</a>, only better. ;-)<br>
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So my once-ample 1.5 TB array has been filled to capacity and then some.<br>
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The idea is to get a box that I can stick in my rack, and then add 1TB<br>
drives as needed and grow the array. The box would only be a NAS; no<br>
processing at all. Since the streams are limited to mythv + internet, a<br>
gigabit connection should be ample for the forseeable future.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Have you considered Suns ZFS? Sounds like their storage pools would be ideal for what you're after? It's fairly trivial to administer too, and with something like Nexenta it's can be almost linux.<br>
<br>Has good software raid, and decent error checking and recovery too.<br><br>Ian<br><br></div></div><br></div>