tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1507242165120640932.post8526191350380736553..comments2023-05-05T14:09:49.745+01:00Comments on From Oedipus to Samuel L. Jackson's Wallet: File storage.TheTelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10726790253029374308noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1507242165120640932.post-42217633627261523802008-02-04T23:31:00.000+00:002008-02-04T23:31:00.000+00:00Though my first thought was also the RAID option, ...Though my first thought was also the RAID option, onthinking about it, this is basically equivalent to just buying a bigger hard drive!<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure whether or not RAID is infinite, I doubt it, but then you're not going to find an infinite amount of hard drive space anyway!<BR/><BR/>I think any indexing layer would be fine, the best option though is to go for something that adds meta tags to the original files, because other wise if you lose the software you lose all your indexing work.joebloggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185774130114293182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1507242165120640932.post-68352067317382437112008-02-02T08:31:00.000+00:002008-02-02T08:31:00.000+00:00An indexing layer would be a program or an interfa...An indexing layer would be a program or an interface that stores pointers to the file locations. Instead of having to look through the filesystem to play a video, I can find it using a search or other structure within the list of pointers.<BR/><BR/>E.g in iTunes, when you download podcasts, they aren't stored in distinct folders or labelled with human-readable names, because you find them using iTunes itself, which knows where they are, and can sort them for you any way you want.<BR/><BR/>It mirrors the way the actual filesystem works too, in the sense that data is stored randomly on the hard drive, but you don't need to know the exact memory address of the data you want, because Windows (or whatever OS) stores and organises the pointers for you.<BR/><BR/>RAIDing (or I think there are other, software, ways of doing it too) is an option, but I don't think you can do it infititely - I think there's still a limit on the number of disks you can join.<BR/><BR/>If I'm still not making sense, then say so :DTheTelfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726790253029374308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1507242165120640932.post-83867836255059565402008-02-02T01:45:00.000+00:002008-02-02T01:45:00.000+00:00I'm mildly confused by what you mean by an indexin...I'm mildly confused by what you mean by an indexing layer etc.<BR/><BR/>Also could you get another drive and raid it with your existing one to create an even larger disk, meaning you could then just put them in a single folder which would span them across the two drives. I'm not sure if that is even possible as I have no experience of raid drives but got the idea this is what could be done.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081411660511251908noreply@blogger.com