Free Agent <freeagent@nospam.com> wrote in
news:nr5fdbpa54a02hjniqjvje7ags1ava3iuo@4ax.com:
> Hi Hegel,
>
> Thanks for the info. Have been checking out your info and am looking
> at this one:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=
> BESTMATCH&Description=NexStar+HX4+Enclosures&N=-1&isNodeId=1
Hello, FreeAgent!
Yep -- that's it! Works like a charm for my needs!
> Dunno if that's the one you have or not. Seems like it might be older
> than the current ones listed at the Vantec website.
They have newer ones, but until one of these dies, I'll keep using them.
The 3TB limit (per drive) helps me be selective in my collecting. I don't
"grab" much over a 2GB file size -- and most film I get is between 750MB
and 1.5GB. I am slowly replacing avi with mkv and m4v, and that is
helping with space restrictions. I have a stable 85mbps connection, so
the temptation to dl large files (and many files) is ever-present.
> Curious whether most use esata or usb3. I don't think I have port
> replication with my system to use esata, which seems to be preferable
> to usb3. My understanding is without port replication either in the
> computer or in an esata card you can't access the drives individually.
I'm using the USB3 -- and the HX4 feeds into my network server. I have no
problem accessing drives individually through my LAN.
> Been collecting myself since the 90's but it's only in the last few
> years that I've stopped burning to dvd and am now only saving to hdd
> and have been getting things I already have on dvd and putting them on
> hdd since they're so much easier to access that way. I use Kodi (was
> XBMC) primarily as my media player though sometimes Kodi won't play
> some of my dvr (hauppage dual tuner card) captures and I have to use
> media player classic to play them (MPC seems to play anything). But I
> prefer using Kodi normally since it works so much better with a remote
> or portable keyboard. Kodi also has a lot of add ons, so you can
> access things like PBS shows, news programs, you tube videos, etc
> directly from the player.
I should have probably looked into something like that (Kodi) -- but
didn't. Since we have a good "over the air" antenna mounted in true 1960s
style over the house, and a Roku box (with Sling-TV and HBO), we've got
about all the bleeding-edge technology we can handle at the moment. ;)
And, I have absolutely no room for 3,500+ DVDs (and that's just the
movies!).
> I probably have media (mostly video but some audio) spread out on
> about 5 hdd's in a very haphazard fashion with almost nothing backed
> up. The older drives are 2TB some are 3T and the newest is 4T. I've
> been trying to consolidate and organize things. Recoding tv episodes
> from saved on hdd as dvd mpeg2 format to h264. Recoding the larger
> 10-20 GB bluray files down to 2-2 GB mkvs with handbrake, and
> consolidating onto a few hdds. Still at this point I'm guessing it's
> around to 8-10 TB after recoding.
>
> So the 4 hdd enclosure you mention sounds like it wouldn't be
> overkill. I suspect I would use the external usb drives for backup
> and keep them unplugged after backing up. I'd imagine they would last
> longer that way, occasionally powering them up to refresh them.
>
> Using the 4 disk enclosures the way you are as individual disks means
> you don't need to have them all the same size or specs as is necessary
> with raid, if I understand correctly.
>
> You plug one of the enclosures into the usb input on the wireless
> router and it broadcasts access to it to anything that can pick up
> wireless -- phones, tablets, laptop computers or sends it through the
> wired connections as well I suppose, in the home. Can't do that at
> present. Verizon has been offering a new wireless router if want to
> upgrade my service, probably has that capability.
I always use my own modem and a separate router -- Comcrap tries to
control modems and routers, and if they're theirs, they can. When we had
two accounts (one business and one residential), Comcrap controlled the
"business modem/router, and opened up a public "hotspot." Of course, I
disabled it as soon as I found out about it, but they didn't mention it,
and neither my wife nor I noticed the language in the contract.
> You reminded me about all the OTR I have somewhere in my mp3 files.
> Ameche and Langford were great in the Bickersons. I'll have to put
> some of them in my car's thumb drive to listen to.
That's how I got started in all this -- and for a number of years I
posted an annual Christmas flood over on ABSRO and ABSROH. This is the
first year I didn't post "Hegel's Holiday Happenin'", primarily because
everything's now available on archive.org. I fear that the OTR newsgroups
have gone the way of OTR -- the last FOTR (Friends of Old Time Radio)
convention was in 2011, and I was fortunate to be there.
I'm currently listening to "Suspense" -- it's been about 15 years since I
last listened to the shows in sequence. Great stuff, that was. . . .
Cheers!
Hegel
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