{"id":96,"date":"2011-11-10T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=94"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:23:55","slug":"deathstar-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"DeathStar – Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started digitising my life over a decade ago as I could see the way things were going, it started with converting all my music to high quality MP3, drifted into digitising TV recordings, DVD’s, movies etc. etc. I like the idea of having everything in one place, at my fingertips so to speak (via a Remote Control) and also the ability to copy stuff to my car, my phone or my MP3 player as I wished. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a result of this it was only a matter of time before I reached Critical Mass and I ran out of places to store stuff, that time is NOW<\/span>…

My Media Centre<\/a> had 4TB of storage (1TB for films, 1TB for TV episodes, 1TB for music\/photos and 1TB for recording TV) but the problem was I was running out of space AND it was getting too big to backup……enter Project DeathStar or in plain English – Network Attached Storage<\/a><\/span>
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I’ve had to wait a while to do this, mainly because I needed technology to catch up with my wishes, and that was for HUGE<\/span> hard drives to be invented because what I wanted was something L-A-R-G-E<\/span>. It needed to automatically backup and synchronise my <\/span>Media Centre<\/a>, my PC, my Netbook and two Android phones and still have some space for ‘future growth’ so I splashed for a Synology Diskstation DS411<\/a><\/span>. This thing will do all of the above plus loads of other neat stuff like CCTV, Mail Server, FTP etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

You buy this thing ’empty’ so you can stuff whatever hard disks you fancy inside it. In my world there is only one hard disk vendor and that is Hitachi Global Storage<\/a>, they are always at the forefront of product design and their stuff never goes wrong (unlike Western Digital or other crap). I can speak with authority on this because I have personally built several hundred PC’s for corporate use that get spanked 8 hours a day and they are all still working years later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I won’t bore you with the techno babble, if you want to find out more about Synology go to their site<\/a>, they make loads of different NAS solutions to suit every budget<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Here’s some pictures of Part One of my NAS build (Part Two to follow):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nasty flash shot but I wanted to show you inside<\/span>
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Bags of storage \ud83d\ude42<\/span>
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Disk Trays<\/span>
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Full of disks<\/span>
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The front panel lights<\/span>
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I started digitising my life over a decade ago as I could see the way things were going, it started with converting all my music to high quality MP3, drifted into digitising TV recordings, DVD’s, movies etc. etc. I like …<\/p>\n

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