setup of raid media server & san on rebuld ASUS z87-pro

bobteske · Sep 22, 2016

I HAVE WAY TOO MUCH SURPLUS HARDWARE! As a 'Dawn of the PC' veteran from the 286 IBM era, I know enough up to the recent IoT era & am now confused with my intended media server setup.
My basics are: ASUS Z87-PRO w/ Wi-Fi Go!, INTEL i5-4670K, ZALMAN CNPS5x CPU Cooler, 800-watt SAMBA ATX/EPS P.S., 4x 4GB (16GB) Patriot G2 1600-ELK, choice SSD: 60GB Kingston KC300 or 120GB OCZ ARC100, choice VGA: EVGA GTX460SC-FERMI or Zotac GTX560-ti-FERMI SLI'ed, 4-Bay ZETERA Hammerbox HZD4B (w/4x 1TB WD AV-GP's) SAN/NAS, choice: INTEL Gigabit CT Single-port NIC or BROADCOM BCM5709 NetXtreme II Dual-port NIC.
Nighthawk R7000 Primary (98.4mhz down & 48.7mhz up) &/or pass-threw Gigabit switch like a Belkin AC1200.
Everything works, but I've torn it down & changed my mind so much that now I'm not sure I'm going to end up with what I want!
I'm almost ready to do a new build with an old NOBILIS SERVER INTEL SE7210TP1-E ON an HP Pro Curve KVM, instead.
Am I WAY overthinking this? Can you give me a direction that will suit my needs?
Thx,
Bob

nigelivey · Sep 22, 2016

"(98.4mhz down & 48.7mhz up)" As a veteran this is very surprising. What exactly is the intended purpose, is it just media or a file server etc etc?

bobteske · Sep 22, 2016

I have fiber to the house, to explain the speed. This build is intended as an 'All-Purpose-Do-All' to end any further rebuild projects (for my own). When the 'Master of the House' gets a new i-and-whatever, I don't want to drop everything to deal with compatibility issues. That takes a LOT of time. So does looking up pic's from old backup's or CD's.
I'm an authorized Microsoft & Intel Systems Re-builder, but those are all by spec & strait forward. 'Tab A into slot B' kind of stuff.
I also share part of a block of IP's w/ the local ISP & have a 248 ch fiber patch panel in my shop. Not that it matters but when their competitor folded, I jumped on the investment.
What surprises you about the speed test?

nigelivey · Sep 23, 2016

bobteske :

I have fiber to the house, to explain the speed. This build is intended as an 'All-Purpose-Do-All' to end any further rebuild projects (for my own). When the 'Master of the House' gets a new i-and-whatever, I don't want to drop everything to deal with compatibility issues. That takes a LOT of time. So does looking up pic's from old backup's or CD's.
I'm an authorized Microsoft & Intel Systems Re-builder, but those are all by spec & strait forward. 'Tab A into slot B' kind of stuff.
I also share part of a block of IP's w/ the local ISP & have a 248 ch fiber patch panel in my shop. Not that it matters but when their competitor folded, I jumped on the investment.
What surprises you about the speed test?

Mhz!!!!! Is not a speed did you mean Mbps or MBps???

bobteske · Sep 23, 2016

Don't know where my head was, DUH! (I was on phone about a Motorola Base station). 3ms ping, 98.4MBp/s down & 48.7 up is what I meant of course. This is after my switches on the cat5 I intend for this unit. I lease back the patch panel & don't punch-down there, from a non-compete agreement & FCC reg's. Still, I have plenty of bandwidth for anything I want to do personally.
Back to the problem at hand;
Are there any problems with loading OS on 60GB SSD, then letting Intel cache the rest of it & RST the HDD's as iSCI's?

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