Home Use NAS

[Endless Night]

I havent looked at these in a long time....   any recommendations for a resonably priced  2+ bay home use NAS.

[TrailMyx]

I got this one recently and it's been working very well despite the reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UBU3SY/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i00

Initially I thought I bought a turd, but after upgrading the BIOS, it accepted my WD Green 3TB drives.  So now I have a 6TB NAS that's worked flawlessly(even survived a fall when a fan fell on top of it.)

[Newsman]

What purpose do you have for a 6TB NAS anyway?

[Endless Night]

I got this one recently and it's been working very well despite the reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UBU3SY/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i00

Initially I thought I bought a turd, but after upgrading the BIOS, it accepted my WD Green 3TB drives.  So now I have a 6TB NAS that's worked flawlessly(even survived a fall when a fan fell on top of it.)

funny enough i was looking at that one yesterday. Planning to set it up as a Raid 1.. so only 3tb total for me...   Hows all the media serving stuff on that not that i really need that functionaily at present but well it comes with it.

Was also looking at setting up my $35 raspberry pi as a nas server, it can do it .. but wouldnt be such a clean physical solution. ie no neat box.

[TrailMyx]

What purpose do you have for a 6TB NAS anyway?

I have all my 500 movies, and 400 disks work of TV series ripped to the unit.  I have a stack of 12 boxes of DVDs I can now store out in the garage and forget about.  So for me, it was time to clean up some clutter.  I get tired of my bachelor's pad decoration sometimes.

I believe I can fit my Blue Rays on it next. 

Anyhow, this box has been pretty flawless after I did the BIOS upgrade.  It just chugs along and streams high definition very easily.  It's pretty quite too and doesn't get hot at all (surprisingly, I suppose due to the green WD drives)

[Newsman]

how long did it take to rip that many dvds?  What kind of quality did the rips get?  What were the specs on the machine you used?

[TrailMyx]

Oh man, I've been ripping these for over 1.5 months now.  Everything is lossless, so I'm basically just copying the .VOB files and removing the residual copy protection.  Each disk takes around 15-20 minutes to copy.  I just have a 6-core Phenom with 16GB, so just about your average computer these days.  I may change to MKV at some point, but at this point I wanted to preserve the DVD functionality.  I did have 2 DVD drives hooked up, so I was able to rip 2 disks simultaneously.

[Newsman]

Are you ripping with cuda?

[TrailMyx]

No, it's called 1-click DVD copy pro.

Were you talking about using Cuda-cores to rip with?  If so then I don't think so because I'm not encoding.

[Newsman]

So wait you're just making dvd image copies?

[TrailMyx]

Yes, I'm a quality whore.  On my 1080p screen, I need to have the best quality I can have, so I sacrifice storage space for quality.  Thus the 6TB drive. 

But many disks out there are still copy protected, so you need to be able to circumvent that protection to make the image.  I could have just as easily made an .ISO of the disks.  That was just another step I didn't want to take.

[Paulonius]

What system do you use to play the files to your TV?

Not entirely on point, but I just bought the Sonos system. Its pretty cool and easy to set up. I think it would work with a system like this to provide audio.

[TrailMyx]

What system do you use to play the files to your TV?

Not entirely on point, but I just bought the Sonos system. Its pretty cool and easy to set up. I think it would work with a system like this to provide audio.

here's the thread where I summarized my HTPC setup and tools:

http://www.scriptuo.com/index.php?topic=10015.msg84463#msg84463

I ended up having many more disks than I was aware of.  lol

[Newsman]

Yes, I'm a quality whore.  On my 1080p screen, I need to have the best quality I can have, so I sacrifice storage space for quality.  Thus the 6TB drive. 

But many disks out there are still copy protected, so you need to be able to circumvent that protection to make the image.  I could have just as easily made an .ISO of the disks.  That was just another step I didn't want to take.

When I tried that route, ie: making .dmg and .iso, i saw an immediate drop in quality when i played from them. How are you storing it?

[Masscre]

Oh man, I've been ripping these for over 1.5 months now.  Everything is lossless, so I'm basically just copying the .VOB files and removing the residual copy protection.  Each disk takes around 15-20 minutes to copy.  I just have a 6-core Phenom with 16GB, so just about your average computer these days.  I may change to MKV at some point, but at this point I wanted to preserve the DVD functionality.  I did have 2 DVD drives hooked up, so I was able to rip 2 disks simultaneously.

He is doing a direct .vob copy to the HD.