Anyone else get the feeling Fansubs are an evil plan of hardrive manfactures?

[sdedalus83]

I would build it around HighPoint Raid controller cards.

That is "hard RAID" that Burkingam was referring to. Those cards cost from 30 to 1000 bucks, so I will choose one I need for my needs when the time comes.

Thing is, unless evga has a motherboard that I like and it has 2 PCI-E 2.0 slots, I will either have one software raid and one hardware, or only have raid 5 for the storage.

Windows' built in raid utility is much more reliable than motherboard based software raid or cheap software based raid cards.  As long as there aren't any system files or applications installed on the array, the performance will be adequate.

You might want to look into building a fileserver based on opensolaris or nexenta as ZFS is much more flexible than RAID.

[AceHigh]

Raid 0 would have applications and the OS itself on it, but the raid 5 is just for file storage.

Also, motherboard utility is not always worse than Windows, depends on manufacturer. Personally I am still deciding between supermicro or evga.

Also Highpoint is known for making good Raid cards, I don't see how windows can beat it.

[TMRNetShark]

Raid 0 would have applications and the OS itself on it, but the raid 5 is just for file storage.

Also, motherboard utility is not always worse than Windows, depends on manufacturer. Personally I am still deciding between supermicro or evga.

Also Highpoint is known for making good Raid cards, I don't see how windows can beat it.

I don't really like the idea of a RAID setup INSIDE a computer. I'd rather have all my OS and recent files on my computer (along with games/applications/and whatever else) while having all my media and anime backed up on my external harddrives. I usually never get a problem at all from streaming movies/shows from the externals, but it's a nice and easy way to make sure I don't lose my shit. I just want to get my own RAID setup...

I wish I had this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132016

AND 8 of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145472

That's 12 TBs parallel of space. Imagine the storage capacity. I would never lose anything ever again. But then again, I would be out $1850.

[sdedalus83]

Highpoint makes good hardware based cards, but the cheapest is going to be about $300.  I think supermicro has boards with real hardware raid, so that's an option too.

The raid chip on cheaper cards and most motherboards offloads the work onto the system.  You also run a significant risk of total loss should the controller or motherboard fail, a problem which is mitigated by real hardware raid and completely eliminated with software raid.

[fullblue]

Thanks for the info.

I'm sticking with external HDD at the moment. Since they might cause trouble (dead + data loss) once a while or anytime soon, someone adviced me to built a RAID 1.

Just in case you didn't know with the prepackaged external HDD in some cases if it just dies the it might be the the HDD on-board power or controller boards that went down. It's just a normal internal hard drive (though might be a smaller 2.5 laptop drive in smaller externals) that inside so can be installed in your machine to test it. Have to look at your warranty but might be able to save the data that way.


Personal I never delete a series, I ether keep it on my hard drive or put it on the plastics disk of the forgotten aka data DVD. I got several hundred data DVD, but always forgot what I have and on/in which spindle/Mass DVD/CD case. Just need to get of my lazy but and make a database for all the series and where it stored.  Sadly DVD are about useless anymore, since we're talking about back up series from 4 1 Tb drives. That about 250+ DVDs per drive.

I'm not sure about it. Prepackaged External HDD usually come with hard to open plastic casing (some are aluminium).

I used to burn a lot of series in DVD and after a while kinda get sick of it. Those spindles eat up a lot of space and hard to sort. And for movies, especially latest ones the filesize is too large for DVD. 1080p movie can be around 9-15 GBs

[Fool010]

Really? Nobody deletes anime that they downloaded on someone's recommendation, but then found out that it was uttermost crap?

Yeah, I've always wondered what exactly is the point in keeping stuff you'll definitively never watch again. I even deleted series I enjoyed, but didn't feel like watching again.

[vuzedome]

So we out to buy more hard drives or what?
I know I am.

[Sosseres]

Really? Nobody deletes anime that they downloaded on someone's recommendation, but then found out that it was uttermost crap?

I have deleted more content then I have on my HDDs right now. By a factor of 2, minimum.

[fullblue]

I usually keep them because I dunno when I'll have the mood to watch that series again. I have some series that I watched multiple times, either because it was good or i don't get the story.

[fohfoh]

I just think OP is being greedy. STOP HOARDING.

[StarDruid]

I just think OP is being greedy. STOP HOARDING.

No, I'm a dragon at heart. Nothing is more comfortable to sleep on then a hoard of gold, rubies, and video game & anime DVD cases.

[fohfoh]

I just think OP is being greedy. STOP HOARDING.

No, I'm a dragon at heart. Nothing is more comfortable to sleep on then a hoard of gold, rubies, and video game & anime DVD cases.

diablo 2 LOD gambling addiction? Those circlets might give some good stuff.