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Is there any news on whether we'll be getting 6TB/8TB SSD's this year? None of these HTPC cases seem to be coming out with an option to mount 3.5" drives anymore.
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Well, since you are looking for 6/8TB SSD's, then money is probably not a problem. Here is a great deal on a Samsung PM1643 30TB SSD, just under 12K US$. For an enterprise SAS drive like that, it is a steal (Seriously!)
If that's your budget, then you can buy one today: https://www.cdw.com/product/micron-5210-ion-solid-state-drive-7.68-tb-sata-6gb-s/5359202That's definitely over budget. I want to pay absolute $1500 max for one drive.
If that's your budget, then you can buy one today: https://www.cdw.com/product/micron-5210-ion-solid-state-drive-7.68-tb-sata-6gb-s/5359202
I want to avoid RAID. I have one drive for television/music and one drive for movies. I think having a NAS would be waste since nobody views media on my gaming machines. I currently have two 3.5" that are 4TB but they are running out of space and I want to move my HTPC into a smaller case.
Who keeps the media stored on the HTPC these days anyway? I have a 500GB SSD in my HTPC, but all my media (15TB+) is stored on my NAS and streamed to my HTPC using Plex.
Archaeologists ?
Relics from an ancient time.
Just seems unnecessary to have two machines. My HTPC never turns off.
Why have an htpc?
Well my NAS is technically just a computer in a Fractal Define R5 with a 10c/20t Xeon and 6 3TB drives, 1 8TB drive and a 500GB SSD. Running Windows w/ Plex Media Server running. My HTPC is a Fractal Node 605 w/ Sandy Bridge quad core and 500GB SSD.
The benefit of having my media stored on a dedicated computer is the fact that I can upgrade and expand the storage easily and using Plex I can stream the media to pretty much anything (phones, computers, roku, firestick, etc..)
You really are better off with a simple NAS. A single bay Synology NAS will use ~10W when the disk is being accessed and ~5W idle (or ~$7 annually if idle 50% of the time). For media streaming, there is zero difference between a hard drive and SSD, so, if you get an 8TB drive + a Synology DS119j, you are looking at ~$300. Nearly $1000 less than the SSD. It's just not worth getting for what you'd be doing with it. Even if you got a 14TB drive, it would still be considerably cheaper.Just seems unnecessary to have two machines. My HTPC never turns off.
You really are better off with a simple NAS. A single bay Synology NAS will use ~10W when the disk is being accessed and ~5W idle (or ~$7 annually if idle 50% of the time). For media streaming, there is zero difference between a hard drive and SSD, so, if you get an 8TB drive + a Synology DS119j, you are looking at ~$300. Nearly $1000 less than the SSD. It's just not worth getting for what you'd be doing with it. Even if you got a 14TB drive, it would still be considerably cheaper.
Alternatively a lot of consumer routers have NAS functionality. If yours does, just plug in a USB drive to that. 8TB externals can be had for ~$150.
I doubt you will notice any delay streaming music either, but that's up to you. 2.5" hard drives are cheap and can be had up to 5TB capacities.Awesome, thanks man. I'll probably save myself a ton of money and go NAS route then. Only annoying thing is having music files on NAS might be annoying since it takes a little bit of time to access. Maybe I'll store all my music locally.
Everyone running their NAS with RAID1?
Everyone running their NAS with RAID1?
I have a Qnap TS-873 with 8 gigs of ram and a GTX1030 for hardware transcoding 4k and 8x8tb drives running Raid 5. Absolutely love it. I can't wait till large capacity SSDs become realistic and more cost effective.
This encodes the video before streaming it to the display device I'm assuming?
IIRC the 1030 dont have any encoders, but maybe does have decoders, so you use the GT1030 to decode and CPU to transcode?I have a Qnap TS-873 with 8 gigs of ram and a GTX1030 for hardware transcoding 4k and 8x8tb drives running Raid 5. Absolutely love it. I can't wait till large capacity SSDs become realistic and more cost effective.