Hi, Guest
04-24-2009, 11:03 PM
started building up the machine yesterday as the first few parts arrived.
The kingwin drive bays are pretty sweet -- but they don't have locks on them, and I can see myself playing with the doors and popping drives indiscriminately if the server's in arm's reach...
Apparently the mobo takes DDR2, and I only have DDR memory -- so gonna have to pick some up today
I may also pick up a gigabit ethernet for the machine as well, since the onboard is only 10/100.. no biggie there.
The thing I'm not so sure about is with going with RAID 5... I want to do that to maximize capacity, but not sure if the tradeoffs of performance and increased likelyhood of lost data down the road are worth it.
My options are to go for 3TB RAID 5 or 2TB RAID 10... I just love the sound of 3TB of data (that'll hold 300 of my DVDs)... but do I want the increased risk of losing stuff down the road? I dunno..
Since the machine will support it, I'm tempted to build it out with 3TB RAID 5 for now -- and save up for an external drive box.. load that up with 2TB drives and mirror them -- 6 drives in the external box = 6TB mirrored, and then transform the current setup from RAID 5 to RAID 10 and have a total of 8TB mirrored storage.
Gonna have to think about this one.
The kingwin drive bays are pretty sweet -- but they don't have locks on them, and I can see myself playing with the doors and popping drives indiscriminately if the server's in arm's reach...
Apparently the mobo takes DDR2, and I only have DDR memory -- so gonna have to pick some up today
I may also pick up a gigabit ethernet for the machine as well, since the onboard is only 10/100.. no biggie there.
The thing I'm not so sure about is with going with RAID 5... I want to do that to maximize capacity, but not sure if the tradeoffs of performance and increased likelyhood of lost data down the road are worth it.
My options are to go for 3TB RAID 5 or 2TB RAID 10... I just love the sound of 3TB of data (that'll hold 300 of my DVDs)... but do I want the increased risk of losing stuff down the road? I dunno..
Since the machine will support it, I'm tempted to build it out with 3TB RAID 5 for now -- and save up for an external drive box.. load that up with 2TB drives and mirror them -- 6 drives in the external box = 6TB mirrored, and then transform the current setup from RAID 5 to RAID 10 and have a total of 8TB mirrored storage.
Gonna have to think about this one.
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