Anyone waiting on Black Friday for purchases?

[megabyteme]

With a teenager, can't you just push on a few raw nerves until she storms out of the house for the week of Christmas? Cheaper. Quieter. Gives you the chance to install your new SSD...

[Artemis]

With a teenager, can't you just push on a few raw nerves until she storms out of the house for the week of Christmas? Cheaper. Quieter. Gives you the chance to install your new SSD...

It's a he, but he does stalk out of the house already so the suggestion has merit...... The plan isn't an SSD, it's this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...35&ignorebbr=1. Now although I included the Newegg link it cost a bit more here but thats not the rub, it's populating the NAS, those drives aren't cheap and they aren't something that crop up on any kind of a 'special deal' either. That being said I have 10% off through a local supplier as standard as I have purchased alot through them over the years.

[megabyteme]

The way a teenage boy eats, you'll only need to make him steam for two weeks...

That looks like a very nice project. Don't tell me you are one of those "pristine" HD-only guys now.

[Artemis]

In a RAID 5 configuration you are losing one drive as the back up drive anyway so the actual data space decreases. This NAS will give me 12TB of space but there are two very important considerations, the first is power, the NAS only uses 69watts at full utilisation, a huge plus in terms of power consumption. The second plus is a RAID 5 configuration gives far better data loss prevention.

As to the data itself, I actually own a large library of DVD and Bluray discs, but have always been deeply irritated by being presented with the anti-piracy blurb and advertising and menus that you cannot skip past when you legally purchased the disc. It is quite legal (here) to make a digital copy of content you own, so I have. There are also ALOT of digital photographs from our business to archive. The NAS is intended to be a central backup for digital media and a media server.

Now another plus in this and the other part of the evil plan is to build a far smaller and also more power efficient HTPC. Since it no longer needs to be a storage device, simply a player....

[Artemis]

Well that's a gigantic pain in the arse......to put it mildly. The drives had to be ordered since they weren't in stock locally and took forever to arrive. I finally purchased four Western Digital 4TB Red NAS drives. So I finally get around to assembling the NAS which was actually moronically simple, but then on first boot it must build the volume, that's fine, I know a NAS will take a while to build the volume but 32 hours.... seriously, that is one long ass time to construct a volume, I know X-RAID is slow, I didn't know it was catatonic!

But wait there's more....

So I log in to ReadyCloud and begin to configure the NAS, log in to the Admin panel and am apprised of a new firmware update that I should apply, fairy nuff I download the latest firmware and apply it at which point the NAS reboots updates the firmware from version 6.0.4 to 6.1.4 and begins to rebuild the volume again.....

Fuck!!!!!!!!


I'll get back to you in another 32 hours.

[mjmacky]

I'll get back to you in another 32 hours.

You're completely ignoring the possibility that new firmware might take longer to build the volume. It's one of those 1 week to 2 month projects

[megabyteme]

I'll get back to you in another 32 hours.

[Artemis]

...... still waiting.......


One thing though, my maths was a bit off, the actual available data space in a RAID 5 configuration using X RAID is 10.47TB, oh well, it will have to do I suppose.

[mjmacky]

Wait, why so much space again?

[megabyteme]

That's A LOT of dwarf porn.*


*Especially considering those files are 30-40% smaller.