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Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2006
- Messages
- 398
after nearly ten years of cream of the crop gaming rigs i have decided the cost is not justifiable. the past few years i have been playing less and less games and buying more and more movies. i share a house with a few close friends and they are in the same boat. i feel centralized media storage and backup space is worth more then the games i play once in a blue moon.
my original plan was to make my htpc the data storage center of my home network. the more i dug, the less appealing this became so i have opted for dedicated network storage. i know many of the storage junkies start in the same place (large tower) and migrate to a rack chassis. i am content with a stacker and four 5in3 hot swap cages. i am planning on a 14 drive array of WD5000ABYS, single disk os and 2 hot spares. out of a twenty pack i will still have a few drives for whatever.
after a few months of research the Areca 1261ML stands out having the features i am looking for and supports the number of drives i want. on paper this looks great though, i am still trying to stomach the cost of the controller and battery sister card. the case, cages and wires will happen soon. in this research i like what freebsd has to offer. i am still looking into the cons but that side of the fence still looks greener. i have never dealt with this segment of the computer industry but i have learned the hard way till this point, no reason to change that now.
i am willing to spend about $600 on the mobo, cpu and mem. the coolers are not included in that budget and will all be passive parts. from my fellow [H]asses i would like some suggestions on what would work in my stated budget. all of the storage is going to be a joint effort on the wallet. i am only paying for the system and chassis parts.
i hope i am going the right direction
my original plan was to make my htpc the data storage center of my home network. the more i dug, the less appealing this became so i have opted for dedicated network storage. i know many of the storage junkies start in the same place (large tower) and migrate to a rack chassis. i am content with a stacker and four 5in3 hot swap cages. i am planning on a 14 drive array of WD5000ABYS, single disk os and 2 hot spares. out of a twenty pack i will still have a few drives for whatever.
after a few months of research the Areca 1261ML stands out having the features i am looking for and supports the number of drives i want. on paper this looks great though, i am still trying to stomach the cost of the controller and battery sister card. the case, cages and wires will happen soon. in this research i like what freebsd has to offer. i am still looking into the cons but that side of the fence still looks greener. i have never dealt with this segment of the computer industry but i have learned the hard way till this point, no reason to change that now.
i am willing to spend about $600 on the mobo, cpu and mem. the coolers are not included in that budget and will all be passive parts. from my fellow [H]asses i would like some suggestions on what would work in my stated budget. all of the storage is going to be a joint effort on the wallet. i am only paying for the system and chassis parts.
i hope i am going the right direction