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So I'm looking to built a new system and two of my goals are:
I'm looking at the X58/P55 platforms and a lot of them come with ICH10R controllers with 6 sata ports that can run raid 5, and some of them come with a secondary controller with two sata ports, such as Marvell or something similar.
Primary Question: If I put my OS drive on the alternate controller (i.e. not on the ICH10R), will I still be able to boot to it, and will the performance be comparable to using the ICH10R? Or is there considerable performance/functionality by using ICH10R for an OS drive over the secondary controller?
The reason I'm considering this is that if I put the OS drive on the ICH10R then that is one less drive I can put into the data volume/array, and I'd like to max it out with 6 drives.
Secondary Question Of course my preference would be to buy some kind of a NAS device that can always be on not requiring my to have my desktop on all the time in order to stream media to my tv/xbox/phone/etc. But what I've found is that most home class NAS solutions that support RAID 5 require that you purchase the drives WITH the enclosure, preventing me from getting good value on the drives. Maybe there is a home NAS solution I'm missing that I should be considering? I've seen all the Norco4020 setups with 16-20 drives, which I'd love, but I no longer live in my home (am renting it out) and don't want to setup a server rack in the garage of the condo I'm living in/renting, and all it's cabling.
Thoughts?
- Large, preferably 6 drive, storage volume (using the cheapest 2TB drives I can find)
- SSD for the OS drive, maybe two of them
I'm looking at the X58/P55 platforms and a lot of them come with ICH10R controllers with 6 sata ports that can run raid 5, and some of them come with a secondary controller with two sata ports, such as Marvell or something similar.
Primary Question: If I put my OS drive on the alternate controller (i.e. not on the ICH10R), will I still be able to boot to it, and will the performance be comparable to using the ICH10R? Or is there considerable performance/functionality by using ICH10R for an OS drive over the secondary controller?
The reason I'm considering this is that if I put the OS drive on the ICH10R then that is one less drive I can put into the data volume/array, and I'd like to max it out with 6 drives.
Secondary Question Of course my preference would be to buy some kind of a NAS device that can always be on not requiring my to have my desktop on all the time in order to stream media to my tv/xbox/phone/etc. But what I've found is that most home class NAS solutions that support RAID 5 require that you purchase the drives WITH the enclosure, preventing me from getting good value on the drives. Maybe there is a home NAS solution I'm missing that I should be considering? I've seen all the Norco4020 setups with 16-20 drives, which I'd love, but I no longer live in my home (am renting it out) and don't want to setup a server rack in the garage of the condo I'm living in/renting, and all it's cabling.
Thoughts?