NAS from old parts

himen256

himen256

himen256

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Hi guys, I have been looking in to NASs for some time but do to price I did held back. Now I have Athlon (2Ghz) with 1.25GB ram:D supported by two 80GB IDE drives with 400 watts PSU. I'm thinking of getting a PCI RAID card with 4 ports and buying 4x4TB drives. My questions are if its good enough for a home nas? will it be possible later on to move HDD with data to good server and rebuild RAID. I will have more question so please feel free to suggest them. Card http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SATA-II-RAID-4-Ports-1-5GB-s-Sil3114-SATA-PCI-Controller-Card-/320895315395?pt=UK_Computing_Other_Computing_Networking&hash=item4ab6d9edc3
 
I was thinking of RAID 1 two 80GB system drives, RAID card would cost me £12. HP microserver is more or less 1x4TB drive, I know I will be building a real server in a year or two. So for now I'm looking for NAS as I need space.
 
So you think is a good idea to instal OS on one of the 80GB with daliy backup to second 80GB and have this card running 4x4TB in JBOD with it evenly spread so if I lose one HDD I lose only data from that HDD? Will it be difficult to then connect those drive plus some more to a good server running LSI RAID card? without losing data?
 
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