Im looking for drives for two boxes:
1. A nice Core 2 setup to replace my old AthlonXP box as my main system. Its mainly used for games and video encoding/DVD authoring. A single fast drive (but not stupidly expensive) I think would fit the bill. I'm thinking something like this Western Digital would fit the bill?
2. My old AthlonXp box is going to be my new file/web server. I'm looking to get over a terabyte across a couple drives so I can set them to raid 5, not for speed but to protect against drive failures. I know its not the best but a 50% price increase for the extra drive sounds better then a 100% increase just for backup.
I'm a bit stumped on what to get for this, speed is not much of an issue, price and reliability is however very important. I have a 500gb IDE drive (that's in my current server) I could use and just get two more of those, but I'd hate to sink money in a somewhat dying interface.
It looks like a couple terabyte drives (one internal, one external backup) might be a good option too, but I like the idea of having over a terabyte since you never get the full 1000gb anyway.
btw, the future file server uses an Abit NF7-S Motherboard with 2 SATA ports (onboard raid controller) so suggestions on a good 4 port pci raid card (if raid is deemed a good idea) would be welcome
1. A nice Core 2 setup to replace my old AthlonXP box as my main system. Its mainly used for games and video encoding/DVD authoring. A single fast drive (but not stupidly expensive) I think would fit the bill. I'm thinking something like this Western Digital would fit the bill?
2. My old AthlonXp box is going to be my new file/web server. I'm looking to get over a terabyte across a couple drives so I can set them to raid 5, not for speed but to protect against drive failures. I know its not the best but a 50% price increase for the extra drive sounds better then a 100% increase just for backup.
I'm a bit stumped on what to get for this, speed is not much of an issue, price and reliability is however very important. I have a 500gb IDE drive (that's in my current server) I could use and just get two more of those, but I'd hate to sink money in a somewhat dying interface.
It looks like a couple terabyte drives (one internal, one external backup) might be a good option too, but I like the idea of having over a terabyte since you never get the full 1000gb anyway.
btw, the future file server uses an Abit NF7-S Motherboard with 2 SATA ports (onboard raid controller) so suggestions on a good 4 port pci raid card (if raid is deemed a good idea) would be welcome
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