I have hundreds of uncompressed movies backed up, and ton's of recorded DVR content that I don't want to throw away just yet. All of these files take up more than 3TB of data, spanning across 4 hard drives. I have an additional 3 storage drives for backups, just in case the main drives fail.
In the future, I would like to somehow streamline the process and allow for additional hard drives. I have two internals and two externals, and its just getting hard plugging and unplugging 5 external hard drives constantly for backups, adding new external drives, and so on. Is there a way I can make this process smoother?
On another note, one major thing I've noticed is that the external drives are essentially in "sleep mode" every time I initially try to a play a file from one of those drives in XBMC. Usually the first file I attempt to play fails to start because the drive isn't warmed up yet. Is there a way to have the drives so that doesn't happen? Are there drawbacks? (Lifetime of the drive, etc)?
In the future, I would like to somehow streamline the process and allow for additional hard drives. I have two internals and two externals, and its just getting hard plugging and unplugging 5 external hard drives constantly for backups, adding new external drives, and so on. Is there a way I can make this process smoother?
On another note, one major thing I've noticed is that the external drives are essentially in "sleep mode" every time I initially try to a play a file from one of those drives in XBMC. Usually the first file I attempt to play fails to start because the drive isn't warmed up yet. Is there a way to have the drives so that doesn't happen? Are there drawbacks? (Lifetime of the drive, etc)?