| I've been discless for years now! I've never owned a standalone DVD player. I don't have a standalone CD player. My home network server holds all my music and video. It lives in a closet, out of sight, out of earshot. All my plastic discs are there too, boxed up, where I don't have to look at them. A diskless computer in the living room is digitally connected to the TV and stereo.
Capps is right: This is the way of the future.
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Samwoo
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Rancho Palos Verdes, CA | but online distribution is in the ditches. |
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 Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | reply to magicalpig9
Good for you!
Now get it out of your home... |
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how much storage capacity do you have for your server? is it mirrored/raid? |
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| Unfortunately, it is necessary to maintain the server myself. I know of no subscription streaming service that can even come close.
The server has ten drives with just over 1.8TB total capacity. Several drives are appended into larger logical drives using lvm under linux. Rather than keeping the backups on the server, where a single catastrophic event could take out all ten drives, selective backups are kept on a completely separate machine with considerably less disk space.
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| cool, i was wondering how much disk space i could get away with for my setup. i think that sounds about right 1.5-2TB. right now i have all my stuff on different machines (all networked & connected to TV/stereo of course), but i plan on building a single central server. |
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