{"id":39,"date":"2017-05-05T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2017\/05\/05\/media-server-part-1-the-back-story\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:52:20","slug":"media-server-part-1-back-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2017\/05\/media-server-part-1-back-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Media Server Part 1 – The Back Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

These posts concerning my media server build do not really fit in any of my other blogs, and since it is something now used by everyone in the house, I thought this blog would be the best place for it.<\/p>\n

A number of years ago I set up a dedicated NAS unit using a QNAP Quad Giga NAS unit.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

I installed 4 x 1TB Hitachi Deskstar disks and had it setup as a Raid 5 disk set.<\/p>\n

This setup was OK, but nothing earth shattering, the 1GB network port would barely achieve 1MB\/s throughput and the NFS\/SAMBA shares were almost too slow to use.<\/p>\n

It did serve a purpose as a dedicated file store for all my movies, tv shows, photos and music, and I further backed up my personal data from it to a pair of 400GB 2.5″ SATA drives that I swapped every so often and then stored at my mother’s place in Gloucestershire as an off-site backup.<\/p>\n

I also used an Xtremer Sidewinder as a media player, initially mounting via NFS from the NAS unit, and later with a locally attached USB Sata drive.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

This was all fine until the disks started failing.<\/p>\n

When the first disk failed and was replaced, the unit lost all of its configuration and I had to recover the raid sets manually, which took me a few days and much internet searching.<\/p>\n

The next time two disks failed in quick succession and I effectively lost all of the contents of the NAS unit.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, because of my off-site backups, I did not lose too much with regards personal files and photos, however all of the tv series and movie files were lost forever, the music I also had backed up elsewhere, so no losses here either.<\/p>\n

I survived without a NAS for a number of years after this and also replaced the Xtremer with the media player part of my VU+ Ultimo satellite receiver, again using a locally attached USB SATA drive for content.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

Then after building my cinema room, I once again became interested in building a NAS come Media server and went looking for some suitable hardware to build it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These posts concerning my media server build do not really fit in any of my other blogs, and since it is something now used by everyone in the house, I thought this blog would be the best place for it. A number of years ago I set up a dedicated NAS unit using a QNAP…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-homelab","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}