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I currently have one file server and one SageTV server for recording TV and distributing music/movies. My main concern is the hard drive config. I currently have 17 drives between the 2 for a total of 2250gb of advertised space. as long as I get close to that I am good.

Here are my limitations. Only 2 PCI slots and only 8 drive bays. Mobo has 4 SATA controllers and 3 IDE controllers for 6 drive capacity on my p4p800e deluxe.

I am only keeping 3 drives from my current config. One is a 250gb SATA that will have a 10gb OS partition and two 300gb IDE storage drives. All 3 can be controlled by the Mobo controllers. That leaves me about 1400gb to make up. I can knock it all out with three 500gb SATA for a total drive count of 6 while still leaving expansion space in the case. Any holes in my logic?
 
How is it getting backed up?
Have you considered the Seagate 750GB drives?
Any provision for fault tolerance (RAID-5, etc)?
Budget?
 
the pictures and files are backed up by an auto file synch to 2 different destination. I have a mirror ont he server and a mirro on 2 other workstations. All of the other data is movies and movies that I own hard copies of. If I lose it I just re-rip.

Seagate 750gb present 2 problems. Overly high $/gb ratio and an overly high amount of data loss per drive. I would rather spread my exposure a little. While it is true I can just rerip my stuff, 500gb presents a little less time spent ripping.

I want to institute a hot swap spare eventually, that's why I am trying to go SATA and leave a PCI slot and drive bay open. I will need a dedicated RAID card for that, so it is probably stage 2 of this upgrade.

these servers were built on a shoestring budget, but I am looking to put some money intot hem now. As for a hard number, I want to do it for as little as possible, but I am not going to buy inferior parts to save money. For instance, I am gettng a new case as well and i am going with a Masstige even though I really want a stacker. Masstige does what I need and save me $50-80. I have about $600-700 to spend right now, but will do this in stages if it goes over that.
 
Seems like you are in a place to go to RAID 5 now with the addition of an add-in SATA RAID card. I've been in a similar situation with a bunch of random drives and just rebuilt my media system with a MSI 6150 motherboard that supports RAID 5 and just got 4x 320gb Seagate 7200.10 drives. I'll be putting the RAID 5 array together in a day or two and transferring all my media data back to this PVR machine over the weekend. I have mine set up like this:

Primary IDE:
80gb PATA = OS
35gb REV drive (Iomega) = backup photos, etc.

Secondary IDE:
250gb PATA = SageTV recordings
DVD burner

4xSATA in RAID 5

I'm really looking forward to having one big partition too - my movies, music, photos, apps, tv shows all vary dynamically month to month and I'm getting tired of constantly 'temporarily' putting movies on my music drive, etc.
 
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