Update on NAS

[GeorgeO]

I got 3 X 3TB hard disks for my ReadyNAS, to boost my storage capacity to 12TB + an extra 3TB external, so I expect that I wont run short of space for a little while( I also have 2 X 2 TBs apart from this), taking me to about 21 TB at this time. I also got a 2TB portable. The NAS is both an audio and video server. I wanted to upgrade my disks to the larger capacities since my NAS can handle it.

Once everything is set up and running and connected to my new Marantz AV 7005 prepro, which is also a network player, I will report.

 

[haisaikat]

23 TB+ quite a thing to report

All the best

 

[rud3dawg]

Way to Go GeorgeO
.. 23 Sweet TBs of sweetness!!!

Sweeeet!!!!!! Nice to see you being 1 step ahead GeorgeO!!!

 

[kGr99]

Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind me asking why would anyone need 23tb of storage space?

I have about 4tb since a year and have been dumping everything ever since and I haven't touched even the 2tb mark yet. Hence my curiosity.

 

[santhosh]

Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind me asking why would anyone need 23tb of storage space?

I have about 4tb since a year and have been dumping everything ever since and I haven't touched even the 2tb mark yet. Hence my curiosity.

Guess you don't have too many HD Videos then ?

 

[TheCoolestOne]

Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind me asking why would anyone need 23tb of storage space?

I have about 4tb since a year and have been dumping everything ever since and I haven't touched even the 2tb mark yet. Hence my curiosity.

Apart from HD movies no FLAC's too it would seem

 

[iaudio]

HD movies, Flac files, high res audio flac, raw format pictures etc are more than enough to fuel an insatiable hunger for storage space! I dont know about 23TB, but I know that 2TB is very easy to fill up in my case.

 

[rud3dawg]

HD movies, Flac files, high res audio flac, raw format pictures etc are more than enough to fuel an insatiable hunger for storage space! I dont know about 23TB, but I know that 2TB is very easy to fill up in my case.

Lols I agree.. I feel even 5-8 TBs are nothing for my needs. planning on a 3 TB soon!! hope the rates come down soon!!! HD movies alone take half of it.. and Music VDOs and Sitcoms are added memory hungry files too!!!

 

[kGr99]

Wow, seems like I am a minority here. Anyways, I do have flacs and HD movies but I guess I am picky in what to keep.

I have about 150 HD movies comes to less than a tb, 500gb of flacs, another 300gb of series.

 

[grubyhalo]

Another point that needs to be taken into account is that he could be running a RAID array...

 

[GeorgeO]

No, but a BR rip can run into 38GB ! I got myself a 4Bay NAS with the intention of filling it up, and now that HD prices are falling I decided that I might as well bite the bullet.Remember the days when Win95 was common, no one imagined that any HD over 120GB would be needed?

 

[haisaikat]

I guess your 23 TB+ setup probably looks even bigger than this

 

[grunthos]

I too jumped on the dedicated server option after going through a lot of threads here as well as looking at my ever growing needs
Wanted to keep flexibility hence am using Win 7
Currently have 5 TB (3+2) (plus two more replacement drives of 2 TB awaited from Seagate) and backing them up using Flexraid using a 3 TB parity disk

Out of 5TB I have used up 3.5 TB so far
In the process of converting my MP3s to FLACs, so expect need for storage to increase

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Remember the days when Win95 was common, no one imagined that any HD over 120GB would be needed?

When Win95 was common, I didn't have terrabytes in my whole server room. And the IBM SCSI discs I did have were absurdly expensive. It isn't that we didn't need big discs, they weren't available.

RAID originally stood for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Discs. Relatively Inexpensive, that is.

 

[Shivam]

I too am planning to go GeorgeO's way. Planning to upgrade my NAS now.

 

[anm]

Shivam - what are you upgrading to?

 

[Shivam]

Shivam - what are you upgrading to?

I am getting a rack based server.

 

[sud98]

In the process of converting my MP3s to FLACs, so expect need for storage to increase

Slightly OT, but I dont think there is a point of doing this. Once you have a lossy, compressed format moving to a lossless format will not give more information. You are better off storing the mp3 and increase playback options.

 

[sam9s]

It isn't that we didn't need big discs, they weren't available.

mmm I put it other way, coz we didn't have the need, they weren't available, the moment need started arising, (coz of compression, better formats, whatever) big disks were made available, subsequently bringing the price down, growing the need more ...... bringing bigger disks on table .....and so on so forth .....the cycle started .........

 

[sam9s]

In the process of converting my MP3s to FLACs, so expect need for storage to increase

Thats would not at be at all advisable, as sud already mentioned, you would only increase the space, not the quality. It would be a total wast of space. If you want flacs for ur MP3, get originally converted from CDs or WAVs.