2011-08-03, 19:18
I am looking for better ideas about serving media and backing up.
My current set-up is an iMac streaming to xbmc on an ATV2. Since discovering xbmc and the ATV2 connection a couple of weeks ago, I’ve started ripping my dvds as we now prefer streaming over using our crappy dvd player. So, I’m going to need more disk capacity. Right now, the videos are being saved to two small external drives I had lying around. The iMac is backed up using Time Machine to a third external usb drive.
My initial thought was swapping out the hd on the iMac but that’s not scalable, if, for example, I started saving my dvds as iso’s. My two biggest needs are disk space for photo files and videos. I’m thinking about moving the photos and videos to an unRaid server and continue to use an external drive for Time Machine for the core stuff on the Mac (system, music, documents, etc.). Does this make sense? Are there other options I might look into? Open to any suggestions; this is all new to me.
My current set-up is an iMac streaming to xbmc on an ATV2. Since discovering xbmc and the ATV2 connection a couple of weeks ago, I’ve started ripping my dvds as we now prefer streaming over using our crappy dvd player. So, I’m going to need more disk capacity. Right now, the videos are being saved to two small external drives I had lying around. The iMac is backed up using Time Machine to a third external usb drive.
My initial thought was swapping out the hd on the iMac but that’s not scalable, if, for example, I started saving my dvds as iso’s. My two biggest needs are disk space for photo files and videos. I’m thinking about moving the photos and videos to an unRaid server and continue to use an external drive for Time Machine for the core stuff on the Mac (system, music, documents, etc.). Does this make sense? Are there other options I might look into? Open to any suggestions; this is all new to me.