Spec me a dirt cheap RAID rig (minus drives)

roakes · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:04

Hey all,

Looking to build a basic RAID rig for my mp3 storage, can you spec me the cheapest system possible not including the hard drives themself.

Thanks

Russ

BigDom · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:32

Are we talking a proper RAID rig with Redundancy? If so then probably best to use a SATA RAID 5 card to get the most out of your capacity whilst retaining redundancy.

Highpoint Rocket RAID 1640 4-channel SATA RAID 5 Host Adapter (CC-004-HP)

Should do the job comined with 4 SATA disks. Samsung Spinpoints maybe?

The rest of the rig is entirely up to you but as a server a Sempron would be plenty.

roakes · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:34

Actually was only looking at RAID1, its only mp3s after all

BigDom · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:41

roakes said:
Actually was only looking at RAID1, its only mp3s after all

well RAID 1 has the plus of being supported by Mother boards but the minus of giving half the available capacity..

RAID 5 gives for 4 disks 75% capactity, for 5 (which isn't supported by this card ) 80% capacity and 3 (which is and allows for a hot standby disk ) gives 66%.

Thus RAID5, if you don't mind paying a little extra for hardware, gives more room for data.

Other than that any of the motherboards which support RAID1 will be fine for a RAID1 rig.