Post Your Rig 2011 Edition

[mullet]

Originally Posted by slaWter

Or maybe for a buddy's rig? Just curious to see such a setup if it exists because you're cable management skills are good

OOh okay I gotcha, no I have never had the opportunity to do a rig of the scale before. I hope the next rig I get I will go all out and get what I really want.

[nekrosoft13]

Server

All 2TB drives

[mullet]

Whoa look at those drives. Nice storage setup dude.

[nekrosoft13]

btw, 3 Samsung F4EG, 1 Hitachi, 2 WD Green EARS, 1 Seagate LP

plus everything is backed up in external enclosure

[ViN86]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

Server

All 2TB drives

Damn that's a lot of pron.

[mcolbourn]

Well here's a pic of my rig as of now January 2011 with my new 6970 just installed.

[ViN86]

Originally Posted by mcolbourn

Well here's a pic of my rig as of now January 2011 with my new 6970 just installed.

Very nice. I'm putting together a rig for my dad using that case. I'll probably take a page from your book and remove that hard drive cage as well.

[nekrosoft13]

Originally Posted by slaWter

nekrosoft13, nice server Do you use any kind of Soft-RAID or simply single drives (with the external backup)?

since i kept adding drives as previous drive got filled up, its all single drive

its all content for my XBMC HTPC

[ViN86]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

since i kept adding drives as previous drive got filled up, its all single drive

its all content for my XBMC HTPC

So it's JBOD? That's in windows server (the older version) under a different name, right?

[Redeemed]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

since i kept adding drives as previous drive got filled up, its all single drive

its all content for my XBMC HTPC

I can't even fathom 14TB worth of data.

[nekrosoft13]

Originally Posted by ViN86

So it's JBOD? That's in windows server (the older version) under a different name, right?

no JBOD, JBOD merges multi drives into one partition. for example half of file can be on one drive and second half on second, if one of drive fails dall data is gone.

I have it simply set up as each drive is seperate partition, then XBMC looks for content in multiple paths

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title..._Media_Sources

all is running on Server 2008 R2 and backed up on two Sans Digital 4 bay external esata enclosures.

and in case you don't know what XBMC is, here is an example all controlled with a remote on HDTV

not my setup, but you get an idea, there are multiple skins.




edit, would be nice to set up a proper raid, but I would need to buy a decent raid controller, more hard drives and bigger case

[ViN86]

Originally Posted by Redeemed

I can't even fathom 14TB worth of data.

It's only 28-56 blu ray movies