I got this sweet deal from a guy I work with who sold me (4) 250GB disks for $100 a few months back. I figured this would be the perfect time to upgrade my storage solution @ home since I was pushing the limit of my Win2k3 software-raid 5 ATA disk setup.
Did I mention that windows BLOWS CHUNKS @ software raid 5. Just bel
ieve me, don’t even bother trying it. I promise you’ll give up on day two of 4 of the initial disk set build. Don’t get me wrong, they tried and for the most part it works great; except when you’re trying to:
- Copy up 10+GB single files of raw video/audio
- Do anything else that requires you to save a file over the network
So I finally got around to buying that cheaper than a $2 hooker hardware raid card I’ve been googlie-eyed over, it’s a Rosewill RC-217. Just a cheap little SATAII Raid card.
Here’s the pics & specs from my rebuilds:
The grey box w/blue lighting is the main server. It’s got 600GB of raid-5 goodness in it and also doubles as a Win2k DC w/DNS, TiVO stuff, ORB, DNS/DHCP Blah, blah blah… Oh yeah, it’s a AMD Duron 1GHz w/2GB RAM.
The green machine is a Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB RAM running FreeNAS since BSD/Linux actually each have a very decent implementation of software raid-5. This one is solely an “archive biatch”.
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