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  1. Fave

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    #1 Fave, Feb 8, 2011
    I'm looking for some advice regarding a pooled drive system. I had WHS for a while buy being based on server 2003 it was not well supported for my needs.
    I've switched to a win 7 server running SageTv on it. I have 9 drives totaling about 16TB. Some of which are in an esata case which supports JBOD and Raid. Though I don't want to use raid especially software raid. It's to slow for streaming and I'm not so concerned about redundancy.

    My main concern is having a pooled drive so I'm not sorting through 9 drives all the time. Anyway I find the tech forms annoying and it's hard to get a simple question answered simply.

    Thanks
     
  2. 430man

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    #2 430man, Feb 10, 2011
    I've run unraid and it worked well enough... but I'm not 100% sure the question you're trying to ask. If you're looking for an NAS, freeNAS works great for me, but I have no problem with unraid either.

    I guess I'm not sure why you need 9 drives as the same logical volume. Once you make the volume the first thing you're going to do is set up folders for organization... why not just use the 9 drives as the root folders? ... Maybe that's just me.
     
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    #3 Fave, Feb 13, 2011
    The reason for this is pure convenience. When I was running WHS 8 of the nine drives were pooled so they all looked like 1 large drive. I have only 3 main directories;
    TV
    movies
    Live recordings
    In those are genre subdirectories.

    When each drive is on it's own I have to spread these out so some drives are for TV and others movies. Because I'm dealing with so many subdirectories i need a chart showing which drive I have what genre directory on. It becomes a pain the butt.
    Does that make sense ?
     
  4. 430man

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    #4 430man, Feb 13, 2011
    It makes sense... but I don't get it.

    I understand that is your present workflow but why go thru all the effort to change your whole system when a small change in workflow would solve the problem?

    In other words, make one drive TV sitcoms and one drive TV dramas. etc.

    I 'get' that you like it the way you have it but to me, the downside of having to run some oddball RAID like system far outweighs the convenience of one big volume.

    It's like you have to cross a stream with an inch of water in it but rather than just putting on boots you want to build a suspension bridge. The bridge is a cooler solution but at what cost?

    Your mileage may (and I guess does) vary.
     
  5. Fave

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    #5 Fave, Feb 14, 2011
    What your saying makes sense. My directory tree splits down to about 100 directories below the tv and movie one.

    Anyway I'm going to just reorganize and keep it the way it is.

    Separately

    I did just pick up 4 x 2tb drives which I'm going to setup as a spanning separate drive and play around with that.
     

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