Comments for Automated Home Readers 20 Terabyte Home Server [Photos] at http://www.automatedhome.co.uk , comment 1 to 15 out of 15 comments http://www.automatedhome.co.uk Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-1150 Just looked at the Backblaze solution. Amazing engineering and thought gone into it - but for a commercial service, no redundant hardware? the drives are RAID'ed, but what happens if any of the PSU's/disk controllers/motherboard/CPU fail?! I would want confirmation that data is managed over a clustered pair of these before I parted with any of my money to host data... - stugriff Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:55:41 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-868 What case is that? - phibertron Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:02:37 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-698 For those serious about storage check out the backblaze storage pod: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#protocase 67TB in a 4U server case. They have released all the plans and BOM if you want to build your own. - Marv2097 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:33:35 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-567 Compressing from WAV -> FLAC is generally a >= 50% reduction. In other words, take n*HDDs used in this example for audio and cut them in half. The decompression CPU penalty is extremely minimal (e.g. Foobar2000 on my box playing back FLAC with max compression doesn't even trigger 1% CPU usage). As for the video, it's most likely worth it to compress those as well. Even with minimal compression and using FLAC as the audio codec, you'll save a ton of space. - Bryan Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:02:23 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-564 Interesting - I have the same case (only 1!), and the same mobo, running WHS. The onboard disk ctlrs are very flakey.... Would the creator perhaps pl share more details on the PCI-X / eSata boards used in the build? Thanks! - Mark Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:44:59 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-553 I have not looked into WHS but personally use UnRaid with about 9TB of storage so far. Again it supports mixed drives and provides redundancy for failure of any single drive. A 1TB drive would provide redundancy for up to 16 1TB drives of storage for example. Whats the redundancy like in WH for a setup of this size? - Stephen Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:30:56 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-551 Flacs have tags - waves dont - thats enough reason for me to not want to use wave. - Richard Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:01:49 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-549 Just one thought, what happens when the hard drive controller gets scragged... Does he have 20T of backup space? - p Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:31:01 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-548 I'm interested in finding out more about this wonderful project.. Does the creator have a website or anything? Or can he contact me? - Adam Egan Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:15:18 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-546 Don't forget that ISOs of DVDs are already compressed video source. Therefore compressing again with disk compression software is pretty pointless. You'd have to re-encode to another format. I personally would take the DVDs down to 2GB mkv files and I'd be surprised if you could tell the difference - or see enough of a difference to make it worth while. There's plenty of software out there to batch convert ISOs to MKVs so just a case of letting it run and run and run and run and run. This would drastically reduce the storage requirements. But as somebody else pointed out - it's a time vs cost of disk issue here. If the chap( or chap'ess of course) is time poor then stick with the disks. (yes I do have more than a few TB of storage about ) - Simon Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:16:08 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-544 Compressing us usually worth it - you always have enough spare CPU to decompress, and decompression is always much faster than pulling the sectors off the disk. It's basically that CPU bus bandwidth outruns disk bus bandwidth, and caching benefits (on CPU, memory and disk controller) double if you're compressing, which only adds to making not compressing silly. I compress everything - unless it's being read 'continuously' and/or you have plenty of spare disk cache, it's worthwhile. - Dom De Vitto Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:54:05 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-543 Why bother wasting time converting wav to flac? He has 20Tb of space and as a 
g;e of his entire video/music collection the difference in space savings is going go be worth very little. In fact if you added all the time to do the conversion it could easily have allowed more rips to be done in that time. His time is worth more than the disk space used. - Scaredycat Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:04:51 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-541 Yeah, an inane conversation. The bits that come out of the computer are exactly the same - Nate Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:33:18 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-540 LOL - That's a conversation you don't want to have with an audiophile! - Sir Henry Wibble Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:17:04 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Automated-Home-Readers-20-Terabyte-Home-Server-Photos.html#comment-539 Why store all audio in uncompressed WAV instead of lossless compression format like flac? - Peer Oliver Schmidt Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:44:58 +0100