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I'm going to be upgrading soon, leaving me with a good few spare parts. I've been wanting to rig up a separate machine with a RIAD setup to back up my computers and store all my movies and music. This is the primary goal. I've also sort of wanted an HTPC, and if I can wrap them all into one with minimal extra cost, I'll do it.
When I upgrade I'll have an EVGA 750i SLI FTW mobo to spare, as well as an older MSI board supporting the same socket, a q9550, a core 2 duo e8400, a set of 2 gigs of DDR2(2x1 gigs), a set of 4 gigs of DDR2 (2x2 gigs), a xigmatek dark knight heatsink and accompanying fan (which is rather large, and tall), and a Corsair HX520 PSU.
I'd prefer to start with at least 4 TB of storage (gonna wait till HD prices drop back to close to where they were before the floods in Thailand). I want that 4 tb to be redundant, and I don't recall which RAID setting would wind up with me having 4 2tb drives with 2 of the drives being a duplicate of the other two, but that's what I'm thinking about doing. I want this to be expandable.
Physical size of the case matters, and I'm going to want something with good dust filters since no matter how much I clean, dust is a plague in my house. I will create another thread in the cases & case modding section once the hardware is decided upon, but I want something that is as small as possible but will still fit the drives and other, necessary, hardware.
What would you do in a similar situation?
Should I be looking at picking up an old mini atx or smaller mobo (depending on pricing, part of the object here is to recycle old hardware to save as much money as possible) that supports the q9550 or e8400?
Would the e8400 have enough power to run the media server allowing me to save the q9550 for a later build of a HTPC machine?
Are there other considerations that I should be evaluating that I have not outlined here?
Thanks for any input!
When I upgrade I'll have an EVGA 750i SLI FTW mobo to spare, as well as an older MSI board supporting the same socket, a q9550, a core 2 duo e8400, a set of 2 gigs of DDR2(2x1 gigs), a set of 4 gigs of DDR2 (2x2 gigs), a xigmatek dark knight heatsink and accompanying fan (which is rather large, and tall), and a Corsair HX520 PSU.
I'd prefer to start with at least 4 TB of storage (gonna wait till HD prices drop back to close to where they were before the floods in Thailand). I want that 4 tb to be redundant, and I don't recall which RAID setting would wind up with me having 4 2tb drives with 2 of the drives being a duplicate of the other two, but that's what I'm thinking about doing. I want this to be expandable.
Physical size of the case matters, and I'm going to want something with good dust filters since no matter how much I clean, dust is a plague in my house. I will create another thread in the cases & case modding section once the hardware is decided upon, but I want something that is as small as possible but will still fit the drives and other, necessary, hardware.
What would you do in a similar situation?
Should I be looking at picking up an old mini atx or smaller mobo (depending on pricing, part of the object here is to recycle old hardware to save as much money as possible) that supports the q9550 or e8400?
Would the e8400 have enough power to run the media server allowing me to save the q9550 for a later build of a HTPC machine?
Are there other considerations that I should be evaluating that I have not outlined here?
Thanks for any input!
