Re: Giving up on WHS- looking for a FAST/BIG network media storage solution

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can't help too much but was interested in your choice of hard drives.
The
advice I received when I was looking for bare drives was that Hitachi's run
hot - much warmer than Samsung and WD. Consequently I went with 2x 1TB
Samsungs even though they were =A39-10 more expensive per drive.

HTH,

Tim.


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, keyvan2r <k1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Last year I decided to build a windows home server box to house my
> collection of movies & blu-rays - 5.5Tb(2x 2tb hitachi, 1x 1.5TB
WD, 550M=
b
> WD System drive. I have around 450 DVD's and 100 BD's.
> From the start I had performance issues with WHS box. It is a high
spec
> machine with quality components. The streaming of movies is very slow,
I
> almost always get stopping, stutter and skipping with BD and often
with D=
VD.
> I also always have to rip to a local disk and copy the folder over to
> server. The copy process is also often really slow and invloves a
number =
of
> time-out errors (retry button).
> I tried rebuilding the machine, bought an adaptec 4 port pci-e
controller=
.
> Turned off all file duplication. I have read about issues re DE
Migrator,
> but I can not see why it is soooo slow!
> I am now at a point where I need to look at an alternative solution.
> unRaid from Lime tech seems to be the best one so far. It has
"user share=
s"
> which can span multiple drives thus giving the "big disk"
feature which I
> get from WHS - plus it offers a single disk failure protection. I use
> MyMovies/WMC for my client pc's for media managment / playback - their
> version for WHS was another driver to choose WHS. I keep DVD's in
Video_t=
s
> folders and BD's as ISO. I have dabbled with Cinemar's DVDLobby and
Plex.
> Might look at DVDLobby again now that 3.9 with on-screen display (as
in
> Kaleidescape)- I prefer that method of browsing titles to the touch
> screen...
> Obviously I have to build this in addition to the existing WHS in
order t=
o
> copy the data (all 4.8 tb!). This is the set of components I am
consideri=
ng:
> Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H
> 2 Gb Corsair XMS3 Dominator DDR3
> AMD Athlon II X2 250
> Coolermaster RC-590
> 450W Corsair CMPSU-450HXUK, Modular
> 3x 2TB Hitachi Saturn
> This comes to around =A3600. Plus $120 for the unRaid OS on USB.
> Before I go ahead, just wanted to get some advice / input from the
forum =
to
> see if anyone can give me a pros/cons or alternate solution to
consider.
> Clearly the major drawback of moving from WHS is that I would need a
> dedicated extra pc (like a basic XP Pro box) to manage the database
> (MyMovies or Lobby server)as unRaid would just be a NAS with no app
> capability, but if I can not get whs to stream or have files copied to
it
> easily, then I have no other choice.
> Thank you in advance for your kind input..
>
> K


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