#UNRAID SETUP MEDAI SHARES INSTALL#

I played them over a wired network to an HTPC running Windows Media Center. IN THE BEGINNING, it was easy enough to shove hard drives into my beefy Windows workstation and create simple shares for movies. Basically, I appealed to the hoary old chestnut: Honey, all of this stuff from Newegg is actually going to save us money.

I was also eager to cut the cord on our expensive cable providers and more storage was the key. However, once the price of a 2TB consumer hard drive fell below $100, it became feasible to use an existing workstation as a storage server for my entire library of ISOs.

Unfortunately, the price of storing and streaming our entire DVD collection was still too expensive a few years ago. An ISO backup of a new DVD for the kids was more an economic decision than one of convenience or media distribution. Between a DVD player in the minivan and a hardwood floor under the family DVD player, the typical lifespan of a Blues Clues DVD was less than a month. I like to tell my wife that my reasons for ripping our DVDs were practical. This allows for performance gains and cost savings while having a complete backup of your media on a separate system. WHS and unRAID can also work in concert вЂ“ many people use an old PC and unRAID as a backup for their WHS. But simple ainвЂ™t easy and the tradeoffs might convince you that the new WHS is a better option. My home theater evolved in a piecemeal fashion and I found unRAID to be a simple and a low cost storage solution to my fragmented and burgeoning media collection. This guide is something like вЂњI wish I had known this before I started.вЂќ

#UNRAID SETUP MEDAI SHARES INSTALL#

It attempts to explain the tradeoffs and install details of the popular storage alternative to Windows Home Server (WHS). This is part one of a three part series of articles serving as a review and basic install walk-through for the storage server unRAID.

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