WHS Recommendations?

[OmegaAvenger]

Ok, I have a norco 4020 case, I have a copy of WHS, and the board, cpu and PSU i was going to use I am instead going to sell to a freind, and I want to know what the people here of [H] would recommend I get so that I can use all 20 hot swap bays, I don't need raid or anything since I have WHS, but what MB/CPU/PSU and raid controller would you guys recommend?

I'd like to know if there are any that will take 1.5 - 2TB drives and which brand of HD would be good to go with for this setup, i usually buy WD black edition drives or seagates, but since this is storage what would be a better recommendation? Overall I want reliability.

 

[nitrobass24]

How about a Supermicro Atom 330 Board, with 2x SASLP-MV8's, Corsair 500W/620W PSU, WD Green Drives.

 

[OmegaAvenger]

that'll be enough for WHS and roughly 20 drives?

 

[Trepidati0n]

that'll be enough for WHS and roughly 20 drives?

Why would you think it not?

 

[[LYL]Homer]

WD Greens:

size / idle / read/write
1tb / 2.8w / 5.4w x20= 56w/108w
1.5tb / 3.7w / 6w x20= 74w/120w
2tb / 3.7w / 6w x20= 74w/120w

Figure about 80w for other components and you're at about 200w max with Greens.


For comparison a 1tb WD Black is 7.8w/8.2w and with 20 drives this becomes 156w/164w. A 1.5tb Seagate 7200.11 is 8.3w/10.1w, or 166w/202w.

Can't beat the green/eco drives for watts per terabyte.

 

[nitrobass24]

size / idle / read/write
1tb / 2.8w / 5.4w x20= 56w/108w
1.5tb / 3.7w / 6w x20= 74w/120w
2tb / 3.7w / 6w x20= 74w/120w

Are you going to post this in every thread?

I think you need your own sticky....LOL

 

[Shockey]

Are you going to post this in every thread?

I think you need your own sticky....LOL

Maybe he should request it be added to the Windows Home Server FAQ

 

[OmegaAvenger]

Why would you think it not?

Just wanted to make sure its enough power. I know the atoms are typically used in netbooks.

but using that setup will totally lower the budget I'll need to spend on this, so I'm gonna do that.

should I get the parts at newegg or do you recommend a specific vendor?

edit: crap one more thing, the norco 4020 has an internal slot for the boot drive, should I just put a PCI SATA controller in there for it, and is there a specific one i should get for performance reasons?