discs, storage devices, rambling discussion

[PhilH]

You can also use one of these cards. They work in a standard PCI slot just fine. It will give you 8 SATA 3.0 GB speed ports. I use this card in two of my unRAID boxes. More expensive than the above card but works great. You can get it here.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009

 

[Russellr]

RAID / WHS boxes and Sony Changer

Hi folks

I've been sitting on this project for 2 years now:
So, I have 1,200 DVD's (and 2 - yes, TWO BD's) I want to get onto a WHS/NAS for access ussing PCs (XP; Vista) and newly aquired PS3.
I bought a Sonly XL1B3 changer 2 years ago.
I was looking at using VistaMCE/MyMovies, but got hacked off with HP H/ware & Stability issues.
In the meantime I got a PS3, and want to use it to play movies (DVD/BD).. from my network.
It seems the industry has caught onto this, and some WHS servers are now provisioned with Twonky, etc for streaming video to devices like PS3s(whoopeee... 2 years later).

Is there a reliable mechanism to use the Sony changer and AnyDVDHD to batch RIP 200 at a time? I can dedicate a fairly potent machine to doing this, XP or Vista, lots of local or NAS drive space, fast network... I just want to get it DONE!

Thanks
russ

 

[Drexl]

I don't think it would work. My guess is that any connections that device makes to a computer are limited to things like cataloging and control. I doubt it would transfer the raw disc contents to a PC.

Does that thing show up as a drive (or many drives) in Explorer when you connect it? You'd probably have to get AnyDVD HD to "see" it as a drive somehow.