Rocket Raid 2300?

[PeteCress]

My dual-redundant 7-TB NAS box keeps bumping up against 90-some percent. Those old Benny Hill shows just keep on coming and coming....

RecordedTV is taking three TB and, since it's basically transient data that I wouldn't lose any sleep over if a non-redundant drive bit the big one, it seems like a good candidate to move to my SageTV box - which is also my 24-7 PC.

Just popped a couple of 2-TB drives in the Sage machine and was about to move all my RecordedTV when I realized that now it will be spread over two drives instead of in a single share and my little scheme of using of Beyond Compare to synch with an old WSH machine for backup would be broken.

So.... how to get RecordedTV on to two drives, but make it all look like one "thing".... whether it's a directory, a share, a faux drive, or something else?

Looking through my junk box, I find a Highpoint "RocketRAID 2300" card that, at least, *sounds* like it might do the job.

Has anybody used one of these things to make a non-redundant array?

Horror stories?

Alternative approaches? Maybe something already native to Windows XP Pro?

I don't care about redundancy, just getting all the recordings under one "Thing" that can be referenced by Beyond Compare.

Widows XP Professional.

[davephan]

You might think about unRAID for mass storage. You can try the 3 drive version for free. The 21 drive version isn't very expensive. UnRAID just runs and runs without any hassle once you set it up. The main disadvantage to unRAID is the slow write time. UnRAID is fast enough for watching videos, only writing is slow, so it is best used for your video library, not recording.

You can automatically move the files with SyncBack, which is free. There's a pay version of SyncBack too, but it has extra features you probably won't need.

Dave

[Bagal]

Why don't you just create 2 folders inside the WHS share for each drive and then use Beyond Compare to sync each drive to each folder? Seems a lot simpler than setting up a raid solution especially for transient data.

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by Bagal

Why don't you just create 2 folders inside the WHS share for each drive and then use Beyond Compare to sync each drive to each folder? Seems a lot simpler than setting up a raid solution especially for transient data.

Geeze!....do I feel dumb!!!

Thanks for pointing out what shb the obvious....

For the bulk conversion, I drag/drop/copy from the NAS box to the two drives until I've got everything copied the first time around - which is probably an overnight job.

Then, the next day, I
[LIST]
[*]Kill Sage,
[*]Identify the stragglers (stuff that got recorded while the initial copy was running)
[*]Copy said stragglers - which should take less than an hour....
[*]Rename the NAS box share
[*]Fire up Sage
[*]Remove the NAS box share from "RecordedTV"
[*]Add the two drives to "RecordedTV"
[*]Confirm that all is well
[*]Run my backup using the two drives and two shares on the WHS box
[*]Delete the renamed NAS box share
[*]Maybe, just for good measure, do the "seeker/disable_root_path_existence_check=true" thing

[/lLIST]

[Fuzzy]

Or you can try out the latest windows 8 and see if it is up to snuff.. The data storage systems in it are very versatile.. :-)