What is your Media Server storage setup?

I am thinking about building a mirrored array 2x2Tb 7200rpm sata drive solution for my current media (video, audio, photos) storage.

My current setup is a 3.5" 750gb and a 2.5" 750gb drive running over usb2 through a Thermaltake Black 2x exteral drive bay. I tend to have to manually copy my new media and would love to find an automated way to keep the drives in sync.

What do you use?

I use my old computer, AMD Athlon 64X2 2.6GHz, 8GB DDR2 RAM 4TB Storage (Spread across 6 HDDs of various sizes). This machine runs Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 with the DriveBender add on. DriveBender allows me to pool the drives into one volume.

I like this setup because it allows for media serving, automatic backups for other computers on the network, remote access to my media and computers.

Microsoft also included a free domain with the server software, so when running a game server from it, it makes it super simple to connect.

Unfortunately, the WHS line has been discontinued.

I use Windows Home Server 2011 with 6tb of storage in it. Works awesome. I run it from a dual core PC with 8gig ram. I run plex server on it and use plex media player to steam all my media to any device in the house be it tablet, android, roku, smart TV, phone, etc

renegade wrote: I use Windows Home Server 2011 with 6tb of storage in it. Works awesome. I run it from a dual core PC with 8gig ram. I run plex server on it and use plex media player to steam all my media to any device in the house be it tablet, android, roku, smart TV, phone, etc

+1, Plex is amazing.

I was looking to build a new media pc but debating on OS and how much ram u shoild use.

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Here is mine, Windows 8.1