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Currently working on:
2 x 3TB for mythtv
2 x 2TB for media/movies/music/photos/stuff
2 x 1TB for backup/archival (1 drive has dma issues.)
1 x 1TB for archival (maxtor brick)
all in one machine, mini ITX, AMD Phenom 2 X4 11500e Processor, 4GB ram, running fedora 17
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My WHS2011 build consists of:
Lian-Li PC-Q08B
ASUS E35M1-I motherboard
4GB RAM
1 x 64GB SSD (OS)
2 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI
1 x 2TB Seagate
1 x 1.5TB WD Caviar Green
1 x 1TB Seagate
So, total of 4.5TB available for media, recorded TV, documents, etc. and 3TB available for backups (I do not backup recorded TV).
I am not much of a media collector, preferring to watch once and return. The exception is kids' stuff which is most of the MKVs/DVDs.
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xbmcg
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a RAID1 NAS-Server that grows with the content, no back-ups for movies / music (most are tv recordings and are repeated all the time by the tv-stations...), then I have riped my good old cd/dvd/br collection to have direct access to it, so no need for back-ups there too (I still have all the original media). Anyway, a drive crash cannot hurt me, because of the mirroring - I am too lazy to recreate my collection in case of a drive crash - mirroring is a little more expensive than raid5, but also faster, more reliable and easier to reconstruct and grow (no striping, just add drive pairs with the maximum capacity available when needed).
However all private stuff (fotos, videos etc ) is backed-up frequently to dvd's and on a second storage, because there is no chance to recreate the content when lost.
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I run a 2TB raid1 for movies and a 2TB raid1 for TV shows in a computer running OpenMediaVault NAS software. I also have a 2TB external HDD for backup.
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2012-05-15, 13:45
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-06, 22:03 by Hgletifer.)
05/15/2012
For Movies I Have 2.5 Terabytes = 762 Movie Titles
For TV I Have 2.1 Terabytes = 47 TV Series (if you want an episode count let me know)
Music is my smallest at 140 GB = 20,352 songs.(not including Audiobooks)
that is used spaced all together Used 4.74Tb but total useable storage of 10.8 Tb
07/06/2013
For Movies I Have 5.46 Terabytes = 1,634 Movie Titles
For TV I Have 4.0 Terabytes = 53 TV Series (if you want an episode count let me know)
Music is my smallest at 170 GB = 24,303 songs.(not including Audiobooks)
that is used spaced all together Used 9.63Tb of a total useable storage of 13.63 Tb
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krasv
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I'm currently at 4tb Movies / 2,5tb TV stuff (hello Sickbeard) / 50gb Music.
As for backups - i'm pretty much relying on the single drive failure resistance of unraid (technically unstriped RAID4)
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ferd
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do you store your movies in 1080p quality?
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defluo
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2x 3TB Mainly TV stuff, but increasingly movies as I upgrade my collection to HD
1x 1TB Full of movies in SD
1x 500GB Music, emulation
TV LG 50PJ350 50 inch HDTV
Receiver Sony STRDH520 7.1
HTPC 1 Custom built 8GB RAM 64GB SSD 250GB SATA Win 8 x64, VRC 1100 remote, AMBX lighting HTPC 2 TV LG 32LK330U 32 inch HDTV HTPC Raspberry Pi 2 OpenELEC
Server HP Microserver Gen 8 10GB RAM, 10.25TB total storage, Sickbeard, SABnzbd+, CouchPotato
Kodi Jarvis, Aeon MQ 6