OK So with WHS 2011 coming I have 2 problems.
1) My current solution e8500 4gb ram 4x 2TB drives has passed the point of being able to allow duplication (not nough space left)
2) WHS 2011 I will need raid as I do not want multiple shares etc
First issue of Case I don't want a rack mount server. I'm interested in the Mountain Mods U2-UFO http://www.mountainm...d-top-p-79.html reason being I can fit 18 hard drives internal with additional brackets http://www.mountainm...lack-p-325.html and I can use it as my printer stand The price also does not seem so bad when you look at rack mount solutions that can handle that many drives and the added cost of 2u psu's.
My hard Drive Plan is as follows
System Drive 2x Raid 1 Drives something reliable and cheap figured I would run this off the motherboards built in controller. I have 4x 7200rpm Seagate 7200.10 Barracuda 320GB drives I used for like 1 month. Figure If I use 2 I have 2 spares for the future.
I currently have 4x Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 2TB Drives they are cheap, fast and I have had no issues with them.
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822145475
So I figured I would add 12 More for a total of 16 2TB Drives
Raid Card to support it...
It would seem these are my choices
http://www.newegg.co...ING&PageSize=20
I don't know much abot the current state of raid I used tons of raid in the past so I'm confident I can figure it out.. Looking for some suggestions on the raid card.
Raid Config Questions: Any isses with 18 Total drives?
I was thinking about doing raid 10 I'm very much into complete redundency and never having to worry so with raid 10 I would get 16TB of usable space. Anyone have another solution that would provide a similar level of redundency with more usable space?
I know its alot but I do not want to lose my data. I have 2 cable modems load balanced with a 4g modem for failerover to give you an idea of how much I hate something not working. (mental issues maybe.. )
For the rest of the system I was thinking something like a 2500k Basic Asus motherboard.
PSU.. Never even worried about power usage of my hard drives before. What would i need for a Sandybridge system with the raid card and 18 drives?
1) My current solution e8500 4gb ram 4x 2TB drives has passed the point of being able to allow duplication (not nough space left)
2) WHS 2011 I will need raid as I do not want multiple shares etc
First issue of Case I don't want a rack mount server. I'm interested in the Mountain Mods U2-UFO http://www.mountainm...d-top-p-79.html reason being I can fit 18 hard drives internal with additional brackets http://www.mountainm...lack-p-325.html and I can use it as my printer stand The price also does not seem so bad when you look at rack mount solutions that can handle that many drives and the added cost of 2u psu's.
My hard Drive Plan is as follows
System Drive 2x Raid 1 Drives something reliable and cheap figured I would run this off the motherboards built in controller. I have 4x 7200rpm Seagate 7200.10 Barracuda 320GB drives I used for like 1 month. Figure If I use 2 I have 2 spares for the future.
I currently have 4x Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 2TB Drives they are cheap, fast and I have had no issues with them.
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822145475
So I figured I would add 12 More for a total of 16 2TB Drives
Raid Card to support it...
It would seem these are my choices
http://www.newegg.co...ING&PageSize=20
I don't know much abot the current state of raid I used tons of raid in the past so I'm confident I can figure it out.. Looking for some suggestions on the raid card.
Raid Config Questions: Any isses with 18 Total drives?
I was thinking about doing raid 10 I'm very much into complete redundency and never having to worry so with raid 10 I would get 16TB of usable space. Anyone have another solution that would provide a similar level of redundency with more usable space?
I know its alot but I do not want to lose my data. I have 2 cable modems load balanced with a 4g modem for failerover to give you an idea of how much I hate something not working. (mental issues maybe.. )
For the rest of the system I was thinking something like a 2500k Basic Asus motherboard.
PSU.. Never even worried about power usage of my hard drives before. What would i need for a Sandybridge system with the raid card and 18 drives?