[dowxp]

in an effort to improve service, i just ordered a 12x1TB system, on raid 6, it should be about 9.75TB formatted. the 1TB drives are wd10eacs's with low power consumption. the raid card is an areca, i bought a battery backup unit, and a 1GB ddr sodimm for cache upgrade. this addition of space will allow new dramas and all raws to be downloaded on a daily basis (this was suspended in lieu of free space).


what other features would you like to see?

i remember pickle wanted a file listing, but i don't know he he's around anymore .. anyways, that's what's happening.

[Strahan]

Nice build, it sounds very similar to my machine (16 WD10EACS on an ARC-1160ML2 in R6). What chassis are you using? Don't forget to apply TLER to each of those WD10EACS, otherwise in the future when the drive goes to correct from an error it may cause the drive to drop out of the array due to the time lag during error correction. How are you handling data archival? What backup solution did you go with?

Anyway, back to the topic, do you have an RSS feed of updates to the collection? That's always a handy thing to have for those of us who like to keep in the loop and up to date.

This post has been edited by Strahan: 08 October 2008 - 06:12 PM

[dowxp]

its on an arc-1130. i will be applying TLER - data archival? i guess just depending on raid6 :o

i'll see what i can do about rss feeds. seems unlikely. the only way would be to make an app to read utorrent :|

[Strahan]

Well, depends on how you have it setup. I've no clue how you organize though, so I'm just feeling in the dark so to speak but on my system I have a script I wrote that scans for files and downloads them, then as soon as they are done downloading I run another script that renames them to my standard and moves them to the right folder. You mentioned utorrent.. I assume you just use that to get media to put on the server.. unless you leave it where utorrent downloads it to I further assume you have some similar moving process? If so, just insert a script into that process to tag things to a DB as you organize them then you can create the feed or whatever other content by polling the DB.

[dowxp]

what script do you use for auto renaming and moving?

[Strahan]

Just something I made, not a regular "product" per se. I pass it the destination folder and ep # and it checks the folder, deletes the old version if there is one and moves the file and names it appropriately. My media library website integrates with Backup Exec, so the script also adds it to the backup queue so next time I run a tape job it gets backed up. I'd like to make it more automated so I don't need to tell it where to put it and what ep number, but file naming standards don't really exist, hehe, so nothing really reliable to plan against.

[dowxp]

just updating ... drives came in. power is about 1.5A (180W) idle, which is great thanks to lower power usage costs. total space after raid 6 and formatting is 9.3TB

raid stripe set at 4k
NTFS unit allocation size set at 64K

shipping today or tomorrow. arrival early next week. online probably by next thursday.

[dowxp]

http://wwwapps.ups.c...s...0&track.y=0