Thanks for pointing this out Tm2b. Also, the big payoff for many teams that are recognized as competitors is the exposure they get which often leads them be to sell their services or technologies to companies or governments. Several of the teams competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE have gotten contracts with NASA . Also if you didn't know, Burt Rutan who won the first Ansari X PRIZE sold his technology and services to Richard Branson which has now become Virgin Galactic. (disclosure I work for X PRIZE)
Pull in all your social networking site feeds into a clean chronological view and you have a Lifestream. There were a ton of sites that released services to do just this last year. It's a great way to share and see what your friends are up to.
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Well to clarify, all of those home movies are still in their original format (DV) and the backup is more so that I don't have to re-capture and encode them. But the point is well taken.
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I just built my first RAID server. I've been the victim of 2 hard drive crashes where I lost data. I have a large media collection that includes family videos of over 30 DV tapes I've captured. Between all the media as well as other critical info I finally decided to dive in.
Since basically all I needed was a file server that also offered redundancy I opted for RAID 5. I didn't need huge performance and in a RAID 5 configuration you only have to sacrifice 1 hard drive for redundancy as opposed sacrificing equal numbers for mirroring. This seemed like a good comrpomise to me.
After making that decision I had to find a controller. I ended up going with a Promise Technologies SATA raid card. I mainly chose it due to the affordability and good reviews. Be careful of some cheaper cards that only offer RAID 5 in software. Another major consideration was the fact that I only had a standard PCI slot available in the Dell 400SC server I was using. That limited my choices quite a bit since most of the other contenders only worked on a PCI-X bus which requires a much pricier server motherboard.
So my build went smooth and I am extremely happy with what I now have. Here's another good bit of advice that a friend passed on. Make sure to test your array after you are done by forcing a failure to understand how your hardware / software deals with it and you are aware of what to expect. I did this by starting to copy a 4GB file to the array and during the copy I unplugged the SATA cable from a drive. The software quickly alerted me of the failure. Shortly after I plugged the SATA cable back in and rebooted. The RAID bios also identified the failure. I then booted into Windows, launched the RAID utility and watched as it rebuilt the array. Everything went smooth and I now feel very confident about my server.
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Thanks for pointing this out Tm2b. Also, the big payoff for many teams that are recognized as competitors is the exposure they get which often leads them be to sell their services or technologies to companies or governments. Several of the teams competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE have gotten contracts with NASA . Also if you didn't know, Burt Rutan who won the first Ansari X PRIZE sold his technology and services to Richard Branson which has now become Virgin Galactic. (disclosure I work for X PRIZE)
Pull in all your social networking site feeds into a clean chronological view and you have a Lifestream. There were a ton of sites that released services to do just this last year. It's a great way to share and see what your friends are up to.
Well to clarify, all of those home movies are still in their original format (DV) and the backup is more so that I don't have to re-capture and encode them. But the point is well taken.
I just built my first RAID server. I've been the victim of 2 hard drive crashes where I lost data. I have a large media collection that includes family videos of over 30 DV tapes I've captured. Between all the media as well as other critical info I finally decided to dive in. Since basically all I needed was a file server that also offered redundancy I opted for RAID 5. I didn't need huge performance and in a RAID 5 configuration you only have to sacrifice 1 hard drive for redundancy as opposed sacrificing equal numbers for mirroring. This seemed like a good comrpomise to me. After making that decision I had to find a controller. I ended up going with a Promise Technologies SATA raid card. I mainly chose it due to the affordability and good reviews. Be careful of some cheaper cards that only offer RAID 5 in software. Another major consideration was the fact that I only had a standard PCI slot available in the Dell 400SC server I was using. That limited my choices quite a bit since most of the other contenders only worked on a PCI-X bus which requires a much pricier server motherboard. So my build went smooth and I am extremely happy with what I now have. Here's another good bit of advice that a friend passed on. Make sure to test your array after you are done by forcing a failure to understand how your hardware / software deals with it and you are aware of what to expect. I did this by starting to copy a 4GB file to the array and during the copy I unplugged the SATA cable from a drive. The software quickly alerted me of the failure. Shortly after I plugged the SATA cable back in and rebooted. The RAID bios also identified the failure. I then booted into Windows, launched the RAID utility and watched as it rebuilt the array. Everything went smooth and I now feel very confident about my server.
...Interesting, that's the same way I feel about new verions of MS OS's. I wait unti the SP2 is out before migrating.