- Oct 26, 2011
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Please be patient with me since this is my first post.
I have Dell 2900 with the following specifications:
2x Intel Xeon CPU 5130@ 2.00Ghz
RAM 12.0 GB
OS Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1
2x WD 320gb running a RAID 1
3x WD Green 3TB no RAID
1x WD 500GB no RAID
So here is the problem I keep facing every here and their making it very annoying because of the consumption of time it takes to retrieve all the data. I run this beast in my house as a media server. We use PLEX and the BOXEE to connect to the server. I'm the only one that handles the server. I can't seem to point the exact time when this happens but it's has happen 3 times in the last 4 years where one of the TB drive will get corrupted and I lose everything on that drive. i can't seem to point what corrupts the drive. I use the 500GB drive to encode my movies and download the ones that are older and can't seem to find on Blu-Ray. 95% of my movies are encoded to .MKV, the rest in .avi or mp4. After the movie are set I transfer it to the correct drive. In a previous instance it seem logic to me to do all my decoding on a separate drive. The RAID 1 drives run only the OS and any software needed.
Each drive has a serious of categories i.e one of the TB will hold kids movies, kids TV shows, and anything related to kids viewing. I have used multiple software to retrieve the data to have somewhat a bit of luck, however, I end up having to find all the movies and added them to the server again. This just happened to one of my drives it was a 2.2GB full when it gave out.
People have suggested to go with a RAID but i want to maximize my drives to upload as much moves as I can, however, if this keeps up I have to lose storage for a RAID.
Someone suggested going from windows to ubuntu but i have no idea how to use it. Last time I installed ubuntu on the server, I couldn't get the hard drives mounted keep getting an error message so I went back to windows.
Need any suggestions on what i should do. If i have to sacrifice storage for a RAID in order not to lose the movies again I will do it. However, if anybody has another suggestion let me know. I can add another 2x 3TB drives and if I by a small cage to the server can add an additional 2 drives for a total of 4 extra drives.
I have Dell 2900 with the following specifications:
2x Intel Xeon CPU 5130@ 2.00Ghz
RAM 12.0 GB
OS Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1
2x WD 320gb running a RAID 1
3x WD Green 3TB no RAID
1x WD 500GB no RAID
So here is the problem I keep facing every here and their making it very annoying because of the consumption of time it takes to retrieve all the data. I run this beast in my house as a media server. We use PLEX and the BOXEE to connect to the server. I'm the only one that handles the server. I can't seem to point the exact time when this happens but it's has happen 3 times in the last 4 years where one of the TB drive will get corrupted and I lose everything on that drive. i can't seem to point what corrupts the drive. I use the 500GB drive to encode my movies and download the ones that are older and can't seem to find on Blu-Ray. 95% of my movies are encoded to .MKV, the rest in .avi or mp4. After the movie are set I transfer it to the correct drive. In a previous instance it seem logic to me to do all my decoding on a separate drive. The RAID 1 drives run only the OS and any software needed.
Each drive has a serious of categories i.e one of the TB will hold kids movies, kids TV shows, and anything related to kids viewing. I have used multiple software to retrieve the data to have somewhat a bit of luck, however, I end up having to find all the movies and added them to the server again. This just happened to one of my drives it was a 2.2GB full when it gave out.
People have suggested to go with a RAID but i want to maximize my drives to upload as much moves as I can, however, if this keeps up I have to lose storage for a RAID.
Someone suggested going from windows to ubuntu but i have no idea how to use it. Last time I installed ubuntu on the server, I couldn't get the hard drives mounted keep getting an error message so I went back to windows.
Need any suggestions on what i should do. If i have to sacrifice storage for a RAID in order not to lose the movies again I will do it. However, if anybody has another suggestion let me know. I can add another 2x 3TB drives and if I by a small cage to the server can add an additional 2 drives for a total of 4 extra drives.
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