2012-02-04, 20:02
Thanks hazeh,
I've been reading more into it, and I ended up pulling the trigger - I ordered parts to build the 6 drive machine from the unRAID sticky here on the forums and I'm looking forward to getting it set up. I'm just now hitting the 6TB mark, and I already have the drives, so this will give me another 4TB of space - plenty for now at the rate I am expanding (I think I've got most of the things I want - I'm not sure how much bigger I can make this collection - time will tell). Even 2TB and using the cache drive might be enough for the time being, but now what I'm almost regretting is the fact that I bought the small case.
From what I'm reading on the forums - when the time comes I can buy a larger box and transfer my existing array to a larger box, correct? I guess it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, as I'd only have to do it once, but I'd like to avoid buying 5 more drives to stage my data while I set up my new expanded capacity system.
Another dumb question I haven't exactly found the answer to, when I hit this array across a network (I'm assuming as a SMB share), will it be one badass 10TB behemoth? I hope so, I'm a little tired of setting up multi-directory shares in XBMC and trying to organize media across drives.
Again, thanks for all the help. I'm new to the forums - so if I'm violating protocol with my amateur questions feel free to reach through the tubes and smack me.
I've been reading more into it, and I ended up pulling the trigger - I ordered parts to build the 6 drive machine from the unRAID sticky here on the forums and I'm looking forward to getting it set up. I'm just now hitting the 6TB mark, and I already have the drives, so this will give me another 4TB of space - plenty for now at the rate I am expanding (I think I've got most of the things I want - I'm not sure how much bigger I can make this collection - time will tell). Even 2TB and using the cache drive might be enough for the time being, but now what I'm almost regretting is the fact that I bought the small case.
From what I'm reading on the forums - when the time comes I can buy a larger box and transfer my existing array to a larger box, correct? I guess it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, as I'd only have to do it once, but I'd like to avoid buying 5 more drives to stage my data while I set up my new expanded capacity system.
Another dumb question I haven't exactly found the answer to, when I hit this array across a network (I'm assuming as a SMB share), will it be one badass 10TB behemoth? I hope so, I'm a little tired of setting up multi-directory shares in XBMC and trying to organize media across drives.
Again, thanks for all the help. I'm new to the forums - so if I'm violating protocol with my amateur questions feel free to reach through the tubes and smack me.