Revision of FileServerPVRProject from Tue, 2006/08/15 - 07:52

Thor needs an upgrade. One, because of this:
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$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 19G 3.6G 14G 21% /
/dev/hda1 23M 14M 7.8M 65% /boot
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdd1 28G 11G 16G 42% /mnt/backup
/dev/mapper/StorageArray-lvol0
859G 842G 18G 98% /mnt/bigdisk
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18G out of 859G available!? 98% full!? Crazy.

So, I need to map out my goals and what I want it to do.

====Goals====
~1)Lots more storage space - enough to last me at least another year given that I've grown ~ 400G in the past year
~1)More reliable storage - loosing a TB of stuff would take a long time to sync again
~1)Easier DVD Ripping - simple enough that Tiff can do it
~1)Better managed Music and Video collections - better tagged, better sorted, better understood of what's there
~1)iPod integration - some way to synchronize my iPod without having to use iTunes would be awesome
~1)Try out http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS - a project to present a unified view of all disks in Linux - possibly even doing RAID5 expansion!
~1)Upgrade to FC4/FC5 x86_64 instead of the 32bit version

====Thoughts====
I was originally thinking of moving Thor to my living room and having it be my PVR. Unfortunately, an unspoken goal for a living room PVR is quietness. Even if I got silent fans (highly unlikely), there was no way I would get 6 spinning hard drives quiet.
So, I think we continue w/ my XBMC setup and just work on upgrading the hard drives for now. It's still a lot of money, but I need at least 3x 400G as I have to remove drives from Thor to fit new ones, and removing a 120G and 160G doesn't leave a lot of new space (about 120G). Aaaand if I'm spending $600 on hard drives, why not spend $800, eh?

====Hardware====
These things won't show up on the PurchaseList.

===New Hardware===
4x 400G SATA2 Drives @ $200 each = $800
Sound Blaster Live w/ COAX out ~ $30 on eBay

===Reused Hardware===
1x 400G SATA Drive
AMD Athlon64 3000+ and motherboard
1G RAM
Various system drives
DVD Drive
Video card w/ svideo out
AverTV Stereo card (BT848 based, I believe)
450W Power Supply

=====References=====
http://blogs.snapstream.com/2006/01/18/godzilla-pvr/ Godzilla PVR


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