[mythtv-users] Slightly OT - How many People have Video libraries over 8TB?

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 6 17:12:21 UTC 2012


On 6 July 2012 17:42, Alexander Fisher <alex at alexfisher.me.uk> wrote:
> On 6 July 2012 17:19, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> and where (roughly) are you located.
>>
>> I've got 13TB and am in Kent, UK.
>
> Have you got that backed up to another 13TB stored on a different machine?
> It'd be a shame if you lost it.  It must have taken you *ages* to build. [1]
>
> I've currently got 96 DVD feature films ripped (no recompression) to
> mkv and the median filesize (quickest type of average for me to work
> out) is 4.5GB.
> 13GB would equate to around 3000 films!  I've got 4x2TB disks, but
> only 4TB is usable.  It's currently configured as a 3 disk RAID5 with
> a hot spare, but I hope to get a 5th drive soon so that I can setup a
> proper backup with the hot spare being re-purposed as a disk in the
> backup machine.  Only then will I feel comfortable spending the hours
> required to rip all my remaining DVD collection.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Alex
>
> [1] - Rereading that, it sounds like a mafia style threat.  I'm not
> really planning on stealing your system. :)
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Raid6 with a hotspare, no backup.

Been building it for about 8+ years I guess.


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