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Right now i run a pretty hacked together server rig, Coolermaster CM 690 also with a 5.25" to 3.5" 4 bay adapter.Motherboard is an older intel atom mini itx w/ pci and gigabit.
A raid 5 port PCI sata RAID card that is slower than anything. For backup i just use a simple 4 bay usb enclosure full of 4 2tb green drives. I have 3 1tb blacks in raid3 and 2 1tb drives in raid 0.
Power supply is a corsair vx450w.
I'd like to take my 500gb of music, nearly 700gb of photos, and some ripped blu-rays/dvds and put them on a new server. Right now 1080p mkvs are just barely handled by the system atm and it's an obvious bottleneck for editing large photo files.
With the new server i'd like to rip my 300ish dvds and possibly some blu-rays as well so I can serve them to media players around the house.
Thinking of an 8-12TB raid5, 6 etc setup
So I have a few questions I was hoping to get input on here.
Can I get away with my current CM 690 case even though it doesn't have hot swap bays? Total newbie question here but when a drive fails how does one 'know' which drive it is that has failed? Does the raid card specify which sata port the drive is attatched if one doesn't have a hot swap system?
Is it possible to stay with a low power system like a mini itx board with pci-express for the raid card or will the atom be a bottleneck even for a raid card with onboard processor? Is AMD fusion another possibility with a pci x16 slot?
I've been looking at areca cards a lot but 3ware looks tempting as well. Not sure what to go for.
Finding good 2tb raid drives seems tough... spend more for the WD RE3 drives or just buy samsung 2tb?
Right now i have pretty much only WD blacks and greens in all my computers and have had good reliability with them.
Thanks for any help, it's really appreciated.
A raid 5 port PCI sata RAID card that is slower than anything. For backup i just use a simple 4 bay usb enclosure full of 4 2tb green drives. I have 3 1tb blacks in raid3 and 2 1tb drives in raid 0.
Power supply is a corsair vx450w.
I'd like to take my 500gb of music, nearly 700gb of photos, and some ripped blu-rays/dvds and put them on a new server. Right now 1080p mkvs are just barely handled by the system atm and it's an obvious bottleneck for editing large photo files.
With the new server i'd like to rip my 300ish dvds and possibly some blu-rays as well so I can serve them to media players around the house.
Thinking of an 8-12TB raid5, 6 etc setup
So I have a few questions I was hoping to get input on here.
Can I get away with my current CM 690 case even though it doesn't have hot swap bays? Total newbie question here but when a drive fails how does one 'know' which drive it is that has failed? Does the raid card specify which sata port the drive is attatched if one doesn't have a hot swap system?
Is it possible to stay with a low power system like a mini itx board with pci-express for the raid card or will the atom be a bottleneck even for a raid card with onboard processor? Is AMD fusion another possibility with a pci x16 slot?
I've been looking at areca cards a lot but 3ware looks tempting as well. Not sure what to go for.
Finding good 2tb raid drives seems tough... spend more for the WD RE3 drives or just buy samsung 2tb?
Right now i have pretty much only WD blacks and greens in all my computers and have had good reliability with them.
Thanks for any help, it's really appreciated.
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