Hi All,
I hope this is the correct forum to post in.
Well i have the need to backup quite a bit of data at home. I am looking to have around 8Tb's online all the time. Disk access speed is not really a high priority, as this will mainly be for backing up all of my work data. Capacity is the main concern.
So i have been having a look around and here are the specs that i am looking to build to:
- RAID Controller. For use in RAID 5 or 6
- PC (I have a fairly recent pc to use, has a motherboard. cpu, DVD and 4BG of RAM.) So no upgrade needed there.
- New Case
- Power Supply
If anyone could suggest a few cases or power supplies along with a RAID controller that will do the job please.
Should i install a different NIC, one that is not on board? or don't worry about it?
With the RAID controller, is it possible once i set-up say the 8TB of storage in the one container, can i expand the raid array to include more disks in the future? Is this a feature that would be possible with a RAID card? I am looking for the system to be able to upgrade (mainly the disk space/new HDD's as they become available)
I have had a look at this RAID card: Adaptec RAID 31605
- Does buying the slightly more expensive RAID controller help to minimise the risk of the Array crashing or getting errors in it which will destroy the data contained inside?
Hope you guys can help me out.
cheers
I hope this is the correct forum to post in.
Well i have the need to backup quite a bit of data at home. I am looking to have around 8Tb's online all the time. Disk access speed is not really a high priority, as this will mainly be for backing up all of my work data. Capacity is the main concern.
So i have been having a look around and here are the specs that i am looking to build to:
- RAID Controller. For use in RAID 5 or 6
- PC (I have a fairly recent pc to use, has a motherboard. cpu, DVD and 4BG of RAM.) So no upgrade needed there.
- New Case
- Power Supply
If anyone could suggest a few cases or power supplies along with a RAID controller that will do the job please.
Should i install a different NIC, one that is not on board? or don't worry about it?
With the RAID controller, is it possible once i set-up say the 8TB of storage in the one container, can i expand the raid array to include more disks in the future? Is this a feature that would be possible with a RAID card? I am looking for the system to be able to upgrade (mainly the disk space/new HDD's as they become available)
I have had a look at this RAID card: Adaptec RAID 31605
- Does buying the slightly more expensive RAID controller help to minimise the risk of the Array crashing or getting errors in it which will destroy the data contained inside?
Hope you guys can help me out.
cheers