Geekend Updates Update

Well even though it's raining I still got a few things done today. Got tired of searching the web for the plastic fence weave I was looking for. Got off my sorry little butt and drove over to Home Depot. They had only 1 roll of the color I needed (needed 6). So I went to Customer Service and had them do a stock check of the Red Bluff Store. They had 20 so I put my stuff back and drove down and got 8 rolls (6 redwood and 2 brown). Suprised me that they still had some since the company that makes the clips is definately out of business.

Got home and the server was making noise so I shut it down to take a nap figuring I'd deal with it later.

Woke up and called an old friend to wish him happy birthday and noticed a package had arrived. My Buffalo TerraStaion Pro 2TB Raid 5 box showed up 2 days early.

While I was talking to my friend I started tearing down my systems. My desktop rackmount case sits on top of the server. So to work on the server, take the workstation down. Anyway it was just a cpu fan with the bearing going out. Fortunately I had a spare and was a quick fix.

My TerraStation Pro took longer to get out of the box  than to get it setup on the network. Raid5 eats up 1/4 of the total drive capacity. But that still leaves me with 3-500gb SATA drives to fill-up with movies and pics. Of course it may take until Monday to get all the 200+GB of movies moved over I allready have.

So I guess I'll just go back and watch tv again and wait for some sunshine. I'd rather be working outside.

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If I actually needed 1.5tb of storage on a single box, I'd probably get one of those Buffalo Terrastations. I hear they are good quality kit. Of course, I'd also consider going gigabit Ethernet on the machines that would use it extensively since the bottleneck at that point becomes the network speed.
It might suprise you how fast this unit is on it's own. When serving movies from a ata 100 external drive 10/100 there would be an appreciable time delay when selecting a movie and buffering occurs. Sometimes I woould have to select the movie a second time just to get it to start. With the TerraStation buffering lasts about 2 seconds or less and the movie starts instantly almost. I have my network splitup abit so the movie traffic never passes through the router. Both the Link Theatre and the TesrraStaion are connected with a switch which in turn is connected to the router.