I plan to build on my media collection with HD content (Blu Ray rips and TV show recordings). Right now I have a 1TB array for most of my SD content which has been find, but now it's not enough.
Of course I'd love to buy a norco 4020 with a hardware raid 16x controller and 16 drives on raid 6. However, that is way too expensive for me right now. Maybe later.
Right now I have 3x drives on a DX38BT motherboard (ICH9r with 6x sata). 2x WD 640's striped for the OS (160GB partition) and data (1TB partition), and 1x 500GB drive for backup. My case has 7x internal 3.5" drive bays. I have an Ultra LSP650 650w Power Supply.
My plan is to drop the 500GB drive, buy 4x 1.5TB drives, and put them in raid 5 on the ICH9r. I know that it won't perform as well as hardware raid, but it doesn't need to so long as it can stream HD. My WD 640's striped can handle anything that needs higher performance.
My questions are:
1) Will my power supply need to be upgraded? Or how can I accurately figure this out?
2) Will adding a raid 5 array to my existing raid 0 array on the ICH9r reduce the performance of my existing array? This would be undesirable.
Later on when I have the money I would then buy a norco 4020 with a 16x controller and a ton of drives in raid 6.
I know I could eat 4TB quickly, but it would work for a while at least while I save for a larger storage solution.
Thanks
Of course I'd love to buy a norco 4020 with a hardware raid 16x controller and 16 drives on raid 6. However, that is way too expensive for me right now. Maybe later.
Right now I have 3x drives on a DX38BT motherboard (ICH9r with 6x sata). 2x WD 640's striped for the OS (160GB partition) and data (1TB partition), and 1x 500GB drive for backup. My case has 7x internal 3.5" drive bays. I have an Ultra LSP650 650w Power Supply.
My plan is to drop the 500GB drive, buy 4x 1.5TB drives, and put them in raid 5 on the ICH9r. I know that it won't perform as well as hardware raid, but it doesn't need to so long as it can stream HD. My WD 640's striped can handle anything that needs higher performance.
My questions are:
1) Will my power supply need to be upgraded? Or how can I accurately figure this out?
2) Will adding a raid 5 array to my existing raid 0 array on the ICH9r reduce the performance of my existing array? This would be undesirable.
Later on when I have the money I would then buy a norco 4020 with a 16x controller and a ton of drives in raid 6.
I know I could eat 4TB quickly, but it would work for a while at least while I save for a larger storage solution.
Thanks