wsume99 Wrote:There are two reasons I personally built a NAS - expandability and silence. As your storage needs increase you'll see that having a bunch of HDDs in your HTPC can get quite noisy. ... ...
I took the reverse route and decommissioned the NAS and moved the disks to the htpc. I have a one touch back up server which boots up, rsyncs local machines on my LAN and internet hosts, it then shuts down so at worst I'll lose a days worth of data which is not a biggie.
HTPC/NAS noise
The htpc needs to run 24/7 due to home automation, cctv and other chores but lets face it - mass storage itself and hence the disks do not to be spinning 24/7.
Disk 1 - OS, apps and scan folders for torrentfluxd / sabnzbplus etc - must be spinning 24/7
Disk 2 - Downloads current watchlist of tv shows and primary filestore - Spins down after 15 mins of inactivity
Disk 3 - Achive of movies - Spins down after 1 minute of inactivity
As expected Disk 3 spends most of its life asleep. Disk 2 also sleeps for very long periods of time. It wakes up only when I need files via a network share or a new torrentfile/nzb has been detected.
Going back to NAS ?
You've given me an idea of building a NAS that wakes up on demand.
If I change directory to /mass_storage the htpc wakes up the NAS and mounts it accordingly ... This I can script in linux easily but what about windows mounted shares ? ... I'll have to think about this
I mean I do already have shortcuts that wake up machines on my LAN but what would be very cool is if you clicked on the network share in explorer it would do that automatically. (edit : cheap solution - I could proxy through the htpc which will work but is a waste of bandwidth.)
Sorry for my jibberish ..... just thinking