Recent content by Jataro

The reason I'm connecting this to a computer is I'm using the computer as the main playback source for my HT/music. It works really well and at least for me is better and more convenient than a Netflix/DVD/CD player. Reason for the Mac mini is it's the cheapest Mac computer that apple makes...

Thank you for the recommendation. I looked into unRAID. It looks like a great solution but I don't like that it can only survive 1 failed drive at a time. In their forums a lot of people have also complained that when a drive fails it's not always obvious leading to people not knowing for...

I looked into unRAID very quickly, I'll have to go back to it tonight when I have more time. From my quick look, it seems like unRAID sets up a RAID 5,without striping, with parity localized to a single disc. Because there's no striping non used drives are not active, and if the array fails...

Hi Anteaus, Thank you for replying. One thing I forgot to mention is that my plan is to run this from a mac mini. MAC because our household is all MAC. The mini so it can be located next to the HT. A tower is a consideration but Apple really charges a ton for those. The configuration you...

Hi all, I apologize if this is a major newbie question but I have not been able to get an answer by reading up on this. I want to set up a home media server, mostly for music, possibly for video too in the future. I'm probably going to get a synology 1812+. At the moment 8 drives is...