unRaid

[onebxr]

[unRaid] Can anyone explain this to me in english. I am thinking about setting up a home server and from what I understand this seems like a good avenue. However I dont know enough about it, hence the reason I am asking.
Also anyone here have any suggestions for creating a home server?
Thanks,
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[screwballl]

unraid??? as in this company? Lime Technology, LLC

I have not heard of this company.... what type of raid setup are you looking for?

[onebxr]

I would like to backup my HTPC and my home computer. I would also like to be able to stream content to both computers from the server. I am not looking at any raid array I just thought the unraid looked interesting seeing as how if one drive fails it doesnt take all the others with it.
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[Hitman]

Originally Posted by onebxr

I would like to backup my HTPC and my home computer. I would also like to be able to stream content to both computers from the server. I am not looking at any raid array I just thought the unraid looked interesting seeing as how if one drive fails it doesnt take all the others with it.
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The software term for that is called spanning drives, the RAID term is called JOBD (Just a bunch of Disks). Both achieved different ways, but basically do the same thing.

[screwballl]

ok so this is a sort of a raid setup that copies the info on at least 2 other hard drives... sounds good but based on the documentation, it is a linux server OS, not a RAID base that you could install windows on...
but this is very interesting, would be neat to make a server out of it without all the extra junk that can come with other linux distros... or having to pay extra for WHS

In the unRAID organization, one hard drive serves as the parity disk; the other hard drives are called data disks.

[One4yu2c]

FYI: Boxer's looking to stream movies and music stored on 8+ hard drives over to his HTPC and main computer.

[Hitman]

I would suggest running Windows Home Server. It allows you to add and subtract hard drives without killing the setup.

Windows Home Server: adding hard drives using WHS' RAID-like disk spanning feature | APC Magazine

[onebxr]

I thought there were problems with Windows Home Server.
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*edit* I read through that and find it looks like what I want to do. However, what happens if one of the drives on that thing fails? do you lose everything, because what it states is that when you add a hard drive it just adds to the storage space.

[screwballl]

that unraid looks very cool. If one drive goes down then you can replace it and the system will automatically rebuild the data on that one drive.
If one drive gets full and you want to replace it with a larger drive, take out the old, put in the newer larger drive and unraid rebuilds all the data back onto the disk...
also it automatically shares the data on your network, so Windows "My Network Places" sees it as disk1, disk2, etc

there is a lot of info here: Lime Technology, LLC » Manual

[Hitman]

Windows Home Server does the exact same thing. http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...e_Extender.pdf