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Hi I have built a windows home server Abit motherboard, on board Sound, vid, 1G Lan. 1gig memory. It is housed in an antec 300 with 450w power supply. No optical drives. It has 4 sata ports all used with 1TB samsung drives giving about 3.6T. I only have (400G free)
I have 2 PCI ports free and 1 PCIE free.
This needs to be upgraded. The max space in the case is 10 drives but not sure of what type of expansion cards to get. I am also looking to use the PCIe to put an External SATA card. (to expand up to a max of 19 drives) This leaves the 2 PCI slots free.
Is this a viable route to take. At the moment HS is set up so it sees all drives a 1. I do not think HS can use raid, as this is an option i would like to consider. Not sure what raid i could use.
Should i build a server using Windows server 2003 / 2008.
This machine is connected to a Gbit lan and it streams to a Netgear 8000 media player. (Music, avi, mkv files)
Thank you for your help
I have 2 PCI ports free and 1 PCIE free.
This needs to be upgraded. The max space in the case is 10 drives but not sure of what type of expansion cards to get. I am also looking to use the PCIe to put an External SATA card. (to expand up to a max of 19 drives) This leaves the 2 PCI slots free.
Is this a viable route to take. At the moment HS is set up so it sees all drives a 1. I do not think HS can use raid, as this is an option i would like to consider. Not sure what raid i could use.
Should i build a server using Windows server 2003 / 2008.
This machine is connected to a Gbit lan and it streams to a Netgear 8000 media player. (Music, avi, mkv files)
Thank you for your help