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When the next generation of something impressive comes out I'll be retiring my q9450 machine to the wonderful life of an HTPC.
It has an ich10 (onboard asus p5q) for storage presently which for now is fine but I doubt it'll last long. Ultimately i'd like a flexible raid configuration or a common one so I can transfer the raid array if any of my hardware dies.
Right now I have (2) WD20EARS (just got these) and a 1.5TB Seagate. As I begin converting DVDs and BluRays (havent decided to rip or encode yet) I believe I'll run out of space quite fast. [[As well as an SSD for the OS/programs.]]
I'd like to have redundancy a 20% redundancy (taking input on this), basically if I have 10 drives, 2 are used for redundancy. If my thinking is correct, even if two of my 10 drives fail I'd still be fully operational. I replace the drives (hot swappable doesn't really matter ,but it wouldn't hurt) and automatic or manually triggered - it will begin to backup to them.
Anyone have a recommendation on how to tackle this?
It has an ich10 (onboard asus p5q) for storage presently which for now is fine but I doubt it'll last long. Ultimately i'd like a flexible raid configuration or a common one so I can transfer the raid array if any of my hardware dies.
Right now I have (2) WD20EARS (just got these) and a 1.5TB Seagate. As I begin converting DVDs and BluRays (havent decided to rip or encode yet) I believe I'll run out of space quite fast. [[As well as an SSD for the OS/programs.]]
I'd like to have redundancy a 20% redundancy (taking input on this), basically if I have 10 drives, 2 are used for redundancy. If my thinking is correct, even if two of my 10 drives fail I'd still be fully operational. I replace the drives (hot swappable doesn't really matter ,but it wouldn't hurt) and automatic or manually triggered - it will begin to backup to them.
Anyone have a recommendation on how to tackle this?