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I want to upgrade some hardrives in my pcs, mostly a mix of IDE's and Sata Hardrives.
And wanted a solution to put all these drives into, after checking with already made products, and seemingly horrible support, I figured it may be easer to build my own system. Raid is not needed.
Kinda like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817424016
But in cheap PC form. All hardrives will be used for data, needs to be fast, but doesn't need to be super fast.
I figure I will have around 4 IDE drives, and 4 Sata Drives, all from 80 gigs to 1 terabyte in size.
So I figured build a really really cheap server that can take 8+ hardrives. I have a 600 Watt PSU, that will be available to this build, its the OCZ one in my sig, and hopefully its enough for 8 drives. Anyhow the system does not need to be fast, its essentially just a real big external NAS.
I'd like to keep the budget around $300-600 shipped from any major etailor, including a good solid 1 terabyte hardrive factored in this cost. It can be 2 500 gis hd's etc, but I need 1 tera, + the drives I am putting in.
I looked at some options, and builds in newegg, but I would like other opinions as well. I am open to anything. I'd just like a solution that I can use in the future. So my drives aren't thrown away once I am done with them.
ps. Need Case, etc. Thinking along the old version of the CM Stacker, or something that fits alot of drives, etc, etc.
And wanted a solution to put all these drives into, after checking with already made products, and seemingly horrible support, I figured it may be easer to build my own system. Raid is not needed.
Kinda like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817424016
But in cheap PC form. All hardrives will be used for data, needs to be fast, but doesn't need to be super fast.
I figure I will have around 4 IDE drives, and 4 Sata Drives, all from 80 gigs to 1 terabyte in size.
So I figured build a really really cheap server that can take 8+ hardrives. I have a 600 Watt PSU, that will be available to this build, its the OCZ one in my sig, and hopefully its enough for 8 drives. Anyhow the system does not need to be fast, its essentially just a real big external NAS.
I'd like to keep the budget around $300-600 shipped from any major etailor, including a good solid 1 terabyte hardrive factored in this cost. It can be 2 500 gis hd's etc, but I need 1 tera, + the drives I am putting in.
I looked at some options, and builds in newegg, but I would like other opinions as well. I am open to anything. I'd just like a solution that I can use in the future. So my drives aren't thrown away once I am done with them.
ps. Need Case, etc. Thinking along the old version of the CM Stacker, or something that fits alot of drives, etc, etc.