Hey all,
Finally looking (now that I have some scrylla in my bank account) to setup a nice RAID5 array to consolidate all my data onto (movies, music, etc), rather than my current desktop with a bunch of drives added in (3 640s, 1 750 and 1 1000, lots of space, 0 redundancy).
Was looking at the Areca ARC-1220 coupled with 8 WD 1TB blacks (WD1001FALS), but upon perusing this subforum, I've noted a lot of folks utilizing non-RAID controller cards (hence cheaper!) plus drives, in conjunction with WHS.
What's the rationale behind that? Software RAID vs hardware RAID offered by a controller? I'd like to not drop $420 on a controller if I don't have too. My primary concern would be reliability, followed by performance (I'm running a GigE network, and don't foresee too many concurrent access onto this machine).
My initial plan was to drop Server 2k8 on the box (TBD CPU/mobo/PSU...shooting for low power consumption, plus hopefuly a mobo that has been reported to play nice with the ARC-1220), setup the RAID (so end up with whatever 7x1TB formatted is...around 6.6TB I think), and make a few shares on it - music, video, etc.
Would like some input from the insane storage guru'd people *stares at Ockie*
Finally looking (now that I have some scrylla in my bank account) to setup a nice RAID5 array to consolidate all my data onto (movies, music, etc), rather than my current desktop with a bunch of drives added in (3 640s, 1 750 and 1 1000, lots of space, 0 redundancy).
Was looking at the Areca ARC-1220 coupled with 8 WD 1TB blacks (WD1001FALS), but upon perusing this subforum, I've noted a lot of folks utilizing non-RAID controller cards (hence cheaper!) plus drives, in conjunction with WHS.
What's the rationale behind that? Software RAID vs hardware RAID offered by a controller? I'd like to not drop $420 on a controller if I don't have too. My primary concern would be reliability, followed by performance (I'm running a GigE network, and don't foresee too many concurrent access onto this machine).
My initial plan was to drop Server 2k8 on the box (TBD CPU/mobo/PSU...shooting for low power consumption, plus hopefuly a mobo that has been reported to play nice with the ARC-1220), setup the RAID (so end up with whatever 7x1TB formatted is...around 6.6TB I think), and make a few shares on it - music, video, etc.
Would like some input from the insane storage guru'd people *stares at Ockie*