Hey Folks
System: i5-2500 cpu
8GB RAM (can jump to 24GB)
Mobo: P8z77lx-v
120GB SSD
Originally ran windows 10
1 HDD 2TB (WD - Black)
1 HDD 1TB (WD - Black)
What I'd like to do is create a web development environment with multiple VM running multiple instances of Apache, and maybe an email server. It would also have a DB server attached to each instance (for purposes of sizing - consider 1 DB would be 1000 records maximum + tables)
#1. I'm thinking I can install all the software on 2 x 120GB in RAID 1 + 0 via the main motherboard. (redundancy),
But i'd also like to increase the HDD storage size, so several questions now come up:
#2. Would 6 (1TB +2TB - on hand) + (1TB + 2TB (i'm thinking Seagate)) = 6TB be suffcicent storage for all of what i want to do in Raid 1 + 0, so if 1 bombs I just drop in a replacement and have it rebuild itself.
#3. Would it be more advantagous to run 4 NEW 3 or 4TB drives? (4TB Seagate is $120)
#4. Would I need a pci-e raid controller (4 sata ports) to put the HDD's on their own raid, would the 2 RAID groups work together, or would the motherboard go direct to PCI-e, and ignore whats on its own board?
Thanks a bunch
M.
System: i5-2500 cpu
8GB RAM (can jump to 24GB)
Mobo: P8z77lx-v
120GB SSD
Originally ran windows 10
1 HDD 2TB (WD - Black)
1 HDD 1TB (WD - Black)
What I'd like to do is create a web development environment with multiple VM running multiple instances of Apache, and maybe an email server. It would also have a DB server attached to each instance (for purposes of sizing - consider 1 DB would be 1000 records maximum + tables)
#1. I'm thinking I can install all the software on 2 x 120GB in RAID 1 + 0 via the main motherboard. (redundancy),
But i'd also like to increase the HDD storage size, so several questions now come up:
#2. Would 6 (1TB +2TB - on hand) + (1TB + 2TB (i'm thinking Seagate)) = 6TB be suffcicent storage for all of what i want to do in Raid 1 + 0, so if 1 bombs I just drop in a replacement and have it rebuild itself.
#3. Would it be more advantagous to run 4 NEW 3 or 4TB drives? (4TB Seagate is $120)
#4. Would I need a pci-e raid controller (4 sata ports) to put the HDD's on their own raid, would the 2 RAID groups work together, or would the motherboard go direct to PCI-e, and ignore whats on its own board?
Thanks a bunch
M.