The prime function would be for remote backup of the plethora of computers in the household, but not necessarily in the house. The audio & video bit is sort of a "might as well" while I'm building. Thinking along the lines of a Myth storage server or DLNA type server and maybe eventually to house the collection of DVDs. I don't have a HDTV yet, but it seems that most/many of the new ones are coming with Ethernet connectivity, not to mention that a PS3 can play some streamed video. Most computers these days have at least 1GigE port and with the cost of 8 port GigE switches at well under $100, it seems to me that some form of IPTV is the future of home distribution.<br>
<br>The main question remains, how should I go about configuring such a system?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jeff Hubbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net">jhubbslist@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Buffalo Terastation, etc. are crap. Lame hardware aside, not being able<br>
to shell in and manipulate stuff is extremely limiting, and not being<br>
able to control the versions and types of protocols used (and therefore<br>
the quality thereof) is frustrating. Last year, I got a guy at LaCie on<br>
the phone and he basically told me that they don't pay a lot of<br>
attention bug-fix-wise to their NFS implementation since so few people<br>
use it.<br>
<br>
I've been using a K7/850 with 2x300GB drives in RAID1 at home for a long<br>
time, but now that I'm expecting to do some videotape ripping I've<br>
decided to move that function to an AMDx2 machine with a pair of 1TB<br>
drives and a capture card...why push video files around the house LAN if<br>
I don't have to?<br>
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Greg Clifton wrote:<br>
> Springboarding off the Pair of Twins Post, I have been thinking of<br>
> building a home brew storage server for several functions including<br>
> media storage and [automated?] backup over the internet of my family's<br>
> computers. Carbonite @ $50/yr might not be so bad but x8 or more<br>
> systems, surely I could build adequate if not superior functionality<br>
> for less than 2 yrs of service. Currently have two kids running Macs<br>
> the rest are running some flavor of Windows, XP, Vista/7 plus I run a<br>
> Ubuntu box as my home system.<br>
><br>
> I noticed a recertified HP home server box on Newegg for ~$320 with<br>
> 2x500GB drives (2 open bays, 4 total), Sempron1.8 processor and 512Meg<br>
> RAM and windblows home server. They sold out of the single hard drive<br>
> version for $259 or I probably would have already bought it. So the<br>
> question is, would it be 'more better' to take such a box and slam in<br>
> a couple of 1.5TB drives or the like and load some Linux distro with<br>
> necessary tools to be able to dump audio + video and [automated]<br>
> backups of all the family computers vs using something like a Buffalo<br>
> Terastation? Or does anybody have a better idea?<br>
><br>
> Assuming the first option is viable, the next question is how to<br>
> configure such a box software-wise, I can handle the hardware, but<br>
> wouldn't know where to start with the software.<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.<br>
> Greg Clifton<br>
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