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Need Server advice

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I need some server advice. I have an P4 that i thinkhas died - no longer get a video signal. So ithought i can repurpose themid tower case as a server for the home to back files up - hundreds of gigs of photos, dvd rips, home video, premier and photoshop work. Right now i use hot swap HDs in my workstation and and manually do the backups - take the backup drives out of the closet, pop one in the hot swap bay, back up and repeat for the other drives.

Anyway thinking about a home server - flexraid is basically a JBOD right? Is flexraid a good idea for backup server or should i do a proper raid - raid 5 for example? And transfers would likely be wireless.
 
Flexraid is a parity based "redundancy" solution that runs on top of Windows. If you have 4x 2TB drives, your available storage would be 6TB. Flexraid does NOT stripe your data across drives, so if you lose more drives at once than your fault tolerance, you only lose the data on those drives. The most reliable part of flexraid is the snapshot portion, which means your parity will only recalculate once a day/week/whatever you set it to. It does have a realtime option, but apparently it's still working out some bugs.

In a month or so when I can hopefully convince my wife to drop cable altogether, I'm going to be picking up Flexraid and using it for my media drives. Currently I am keeping manual mirrors of two sets of drives on two different boxes. Flexraid looks like it should make it pretty easy.

And remember, something like Flexraid isn't actually a backup, just provides some redundancy in the event of a drive failure.

Another option you may want to check out is unRAID. It's not as "pretty" as Flexraid but it works the same way. It also boots off a USB stick, so with something like this you could free up a SATA port from your OS drive. From what I've read, knowledge of Linux would definitely be helpful in unRAID. It's more expensive for the unRAID license than Flexraid, but you don't need to run it on top of an OS.
 
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