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Greatone123
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I'm sure there are 100's of posts about people asking advice about which this or that to get... I've read most of them, and it's like "why are you asking if you've already read?". well as time goes by people have new experiences and find out new things about hardware, so by the time I ask maybe something new has come along.
I'm planning on treading into new territory here, I wanna get into video/audio editing and already have lots of ideas and friends that wanna help.
I have a somewhat basic system (as far as editing video would be concerned)
OS: XP Pro SP2
CPU: Xeon x3210 @2.66 Ghz
RAM: 2GB DDR2 800
VID: ATI HD3870
MB: GA-P35-DS3L
HDD: Seagate 250GB SATAII ES.2
Obviously my biggest issue is space, my second one is why I'm asking, a friend of mine just had a HDD fail with 200+ GBs of family photos and videos he can't replace.
Answer:
RAID 5, and I DO have a file server for backing up files when needed.
I was thinking of a small 4 disk RAID5...I do not know anything about raid as said, and from reading I've read about REAL HARDWARE RAID... rather then the fake stuff built in and cheap raid cards offer...I've seen several names come up. Areca, 3com, Highpoint
but when it comes down to it... with my budget and my wants.. I've got it down to around 4 that I might want. As it is, I'll have to upgrade my Motherboard so I can gain the extra slot for the RAID card.. which I have no problem with.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16816131003,N82E16816115048,N82E16816116042
this are the cards I've narrowed it down to... I'd like to spend less then $350 on the card... unless the difference is outrageous I'd like to keep it 4 disk under 350.. if you can prove I'd benifit more from 4+ disk and over 350 I can change my ideas around.. it's not a set budget it's a I don't wanna be in debt when I'm done budget.
Would I use the RAID5 as a secondary thing.. like 1 drive to boot.. RAID array to save server to back-up? or just use the RAID5 for everything and then back-up to server?
Obviously safety is the biggest concern but, I'll be dealing with a lot of large files and need that read write speed... I'll be around so ask anything if needed...
I'm planning on treading into new territory here, I wanna get into video/audio editing and already have lots of ideas and friends that wanna help.
I have a somewhat basic system (as far as editing video would be concerned)
OS: XP Pro SP2
CPU: Xeon x3210 @2.66 Ghz
RAM: 2GB DDR2 800
VID: ATI HD3870
MB: GA-P35-DS3L
HDD: Seagate 250GB SATAII ES.2
Obviously my biggest issue is space, my second one is why I'm asking, a friend of mine just had a HDD fail with 200+ GBs of family photos and videos he can't replace.
Answer:
RAID 5, and I DO have a file server for backing up files when needed.
I was thinking of a small 4 disk RAID5...I do not know anything about raid as said, and from reading I've read about REAL HARDWARE RAID... rather then the fake stuff built in and cheap raid cards offer...I've seen several names come up. Areca, 3com, Highpoint
but when it comes down to it... with my budget and my wants.. I've got it down to around 4 that I might want. As it is, I'll have to upgrade my Motherboard so I can gain the extra slot for the RAID card.. which I have no problem with.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16816131003,N82E16816115048,N82E16816116042
this are the cards I've narrowed it down to... I'd like to spend less then $350 on the card... unless the difference is outrageous I'd like to keep it 4 disk under 350.. if you can prove I'd benifit more from 4+ disk and over 350 I can change my ideas around.. it's not a set budget it's a I don't wanna be in debt when I'm done budget.
Would I use the RAID5 as a secondary thing.. like 1 drive to boot.. RAID array to save server to back-up? or just use the RAID5 for everything and then back-up to server?
Obviously safety is the biggest concern but, I'll be dealing with a lot of large files and need that read write speed... I'll be around so ask anything if needed...