How much Storage is in your HTPC?
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Maximum space.
I watch more movies having them ready accessible on MY HTPC were I can just browse genre,director,actor,year etc.. than getting up picking a DVD of the shelf and putting it in the drive.
Also DVD's look naff on shelves taking up space IMO. Collecting dust etc..
The beauty of having them on HTPC is they can be accessed over the network to any room in the house. Sweet
CBA with Raid.
As others have said I have movies already on disk DVD. And the cost of a Raid controller against ripping them again makes it not worth it.
The important stuff like captured DV family footage, photos' ect are stored on a about 4 different PC's....
One at my brother in laws.
My work PC
Laptop
etc...
The WD Greens are a really nice drive and I intend to get more.
ONly thing I have installed on my HTPC is my APC UPS.
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i wish my case had more hard drive slots now 
ive filled up 1Tb with stuff recorded of sky HD in a 2 months
ive filled up 1Tb with stuff recorded of sky HD in a 2 months
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I know you can't say where, but are you getting the WD drives brand new at 60 quid a pop?
In the states you can get the Samsung 1TB drives (which have really great reviews and which I have 3 of) for about 60 pounds
I'm going to have to get another HTPC set up with more room at this rate
HTPC? Only 80gb. Thats all it needs.
The Mediaserver however - 6x1.5tb WD Green drives and an 80gb IDE drive for the OS. Has space for another 2 drives then it's full. Tempted to fo for 2x2tb drives to finish it off. OS wise - it's Just running Server 2003. Couldn't be bothered with anything else on it.
Holds mainly music in FLAC. No backups needed as I have the original CD's as backups. Does have a few DVD ISO's on there too. Just the main movie stripped of any extras - generally around 4-6gb each - again, original disks are the backups.
The Mediaserver however - 6x1.5tb WD Green drives and an 80gb IDE drive for the OS. Has space for another 2 drives then it's full. Tempted to fo for 2x2tb drives to finish it off. OS wise - it's Just running Server 2003. Couldn't be bothered with anything else on it.
Holds mainly music in FLAC. No backups needed as I have the original CD's as backups. Does have a few DVD ISO's on there too. Just the main movie stripped of any extras - generally around 4-6gb each - again, original disks are the backups.
My htpc was specified for 10 hard drives and that has 620watt psu so more than enough.
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Yes a guy over on avs forum built a 48tb array with 48 1tb drives and it only pulled around 400watts.
If you are going for a lot of space per gb 1.5tb drives are now cheaper than 1tb drives.
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For someone who doesn't use RAID, and doesn't have SAS drives (though it would be compatible), that's a bit overkill I would have thought.
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True forgot he mentioned no RAID but for £50 ish it is still a great card, it will support 8 SATA drives out of the 2 SAS ports.
Yeah thanks for the link
But I just need a simple solution that can add sata ports to my HTPC so I can add more drives.
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Yeah thanks for the link
But I just need a simple solution that can add sata ports to my HTPC so I can add more drives.
TBH for a 8 port card it works out very cheap even if you are not using any of the features.
Holy storage space batman!! How many DVDs do you intend to rip?
Depends what else is in the HTPC I suppose.
Its needs a PCI express 8x slot?