Big Geek Project
I'm in Phase 1 of my BGP (Big Geek Project) for the house. Wire the house for ethernet access in a variety of rooms. That should be a completed this weekend. Though I'm pretty sure I've said that the past 2 weekends. Meg keeps finding ways to distract me when I say I'm going to go cut a hole in the wall, I'm not sure why.
After the wires are run, I begin Phase 2. a Huge Storage Array (BGP:HSA). I want to get a least half a terabyte of network attachable storage. I can't decide if I want to use my existing dual PII server for this, and just load it up on harddrives, or take my existing desktop machine and use the built in RAID controller, either way I will probably need a new power supply to handle all those spinning drives.
What is a good cheap way to get a massive amount of storage? just a single Raid server? maybe something like Coda or OpenAFS? What do my faithful readers suggest? all 2 of you.
Phase 3 is the good stuff. MythTV. Tivo on steroids. Once that's working on the main server, Phase 4 set top boxes on each of my TV's.
Phase 3 and 4 seemed to be pretty well mapped out territory, but my main sticking point will be how to get the storage built, so that it's cheap and expandable. I'm welcoming suggestions.