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I've been saving my DVD collection as iso files on my server and then watching them on any of the TVs in the house using FUSE (ssh). Works great. But over the years I keep exceeding disk storage even though disks keep getting bigger and bigger. I'd add more disks to the server but it keeps getting smaller and smaller, which is a good thing. I have a 2TB drive now at 85% capacity with a 2TB USB back up drive. It occurs to me that if I but add another 2TB USB drive to the mix I could double my capacity by using a software RAID5 configuration. Before I leap I thought it wise to throw this idea out for a sanity check. Questions: 1) Am I correct that performance using wired ethernet (1G) and dual core (64bit) Linux/Mac computers as server/client computers will not be an issue? 2) If you are using a different approach to solve pretty much the same problem, what is your solution?
I am talking about a 3 USB disk raid5 configuration. Is your configuration using USB disks? – pmr – 2010-11-28T20:02:33.430
ah sorry pmr, I've re-read your question and I do indeed see you mention three disks. Anyway, everything after the first two sentences is still valid :) – bramp – 2010-11-29T01:03:33.147
Based on this answer, I built the simple 3 USB disk (2TB each) and the system is serving up different videos to three TVs simultaneously with no problems so far. This, of course, gives me 4TB of storage which should suffice until the 4TB drives are available. :-) – pmr – 2010-11-30T14:29:13.563