I'm so confused, please help

[buwish]

Get yourself a holographic drive, then you'll be good to go. Just joking! Anyways, have you looked into a couple of SATA's that hold 2TB each? This way you could potentially max out on storage for the time being and not have to switch out your MOBO. This way you could keep your 750GB HDD in your computer and go with a SSD as your boot drive. I would recommend the intel x-25 drive you are looking at.

It all depends on your budget for the upgrades and how much you want to spend. What about a new, but fairly cheap MOBO for your server machine? I'm sure you can find a socket 775 or AMD2 or 3 board with 4-5 SATA ports for cheap.

 

[jadawgis732]

I have it networked to a Dell P4 Optiplex functioning as a server, which has only 2 SATA slots. Currently the server has an 80GB and 1TB WD Green. The desktop is running a 750GB WD Green. I'm going to do some upgrades soon. I want an SSD for the desktop, and more storage for the server. I can swap my CPU and MB into the server to give more sata availability, but I was thinking maybe mirroring the Server's storage. Here are my needs: SSD for the gaming machine, and more storage, perhaps some added reliability without the hassles of RAID in the server. I'll need to keep at least a 750GB HDD for the Gaming machine, and I'd like about 3TB for the server.

What follows is an unordered list that was basically made as a brainstorm for private use. It will give you some insight into what I was thinking though.
-storage-2x1.5tb, ($220 with s+h) (Samsung spinpoint f2) Or 3x1tb (+current WD10EADS for 3TB(??) RAID 10 ($255, with s+h)
-storage >60gb ssd (ocz vertex turbo $240 intel x-25 $240) (OCZ Summit 120GB - $335 Vertex 120GB $399)



My current PC:
PII X3 720 BE @ 200x18 @ 1.488 = 3.6GHz
Gigabyte MA-770-UD3
4850x2 @ 685/1080
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty Platinum
4Gb (2 x 2Gb) G.Skill PC2-8500
Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB SATA HDD
7200.11 Barracuda
DVD+

 

[jadawgis732]

I assume I'm looking at about $600-$700 to do it properly, I centainly don't mind cutting corners, but I would like my data to be safe (i.e. not worry about a drive failure) and it's rather just a desire, brought on by all the great press, that I want an SSD. Doing the data right though takes precedence.