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Conanius

Conanius

Conanius

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Riteo,

Wanting to build myself a home file server. I'm after circa 3-4TB of space, and ideally want to do this with some sort of data safety (RAID 5 maybe?)

Big problem im finding is a motherboard or controller card with enough SATA ports, as it seems this can be done best with 500 gig drives.

What do people here recommend, I'd appreciate full specs off you all if possible (case, psu etc) and ideally sooner rather than later as I want to order in the next couple of days.

Cheers all
 
semi-pro waster said:
Do you have a budget here? Also there is the obvious point that you are going to need a pretty big case as well to accomodate 8 odd hard drives. It might be worth biting the bullet and going for four 1tb drives instead, you can pick up controller cards more easily and cheaply for four drives than for six+.
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sorry, was a bit retarded and forgot to add that !

Ideally I'd like to stay sub 1k, but not sure if that is doable?
 
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