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jay_l_a   11-02-2009 at 11:40:58 PM

I've built many machines in the past. But I'm building a machine for a friend, and his needs are somewhat different than the gaming rigs I normally build.
He is going to be mostly using the machine for photo editing. Lots of Photos. Terabytes of Photos.

So I've put together a public wish list below, but I have a few questions, mostly RAID related.

I want to use RAID 5 to give him some redundancy. I'm aiming to use 7 1.5TB drives (I may change motherboard to one with 10 SATA connectors, and use 9 1.5TB drives).

Will RAID 5 work with this many drives?
Is the onboard RAID controller worth using, or would I be better with a discrete card?

Any other general suggestions or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
J



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------------------------------ GA-X38-DS4 (BIOS F3)||E8400 C2D (3.6GHz)||2x 1Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 4-4-4-12||320Gb WD Caviar||2x 750Gb WD Caviar||Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W||2x HD4870 512Mb(Crossfire)||HT Omega Striker 7.1
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jay_l_a   11-03-2009 at 12:06:21 AM

Apologies, never asked for build advice before, and didn't use the standard format.

However my post isn't really about which parts, more about RAID.

------------------------------ GA-X38-DS4 (BIOS F3)||E8400 C2D (3.6GHz)||2x 1Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 4-4-4-12||320Gb WD Caviar||2x 750Gb WD Caviar||Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W||2x HD4870 512Mb(Crossfire)||HT Omega Striker 7.1
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This might go better in the Hard Drive forum.

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jay_l_a   11-03-2009 at 01:41:33 AM

Good point. Consider this thread closed.

 

Moved to storage:

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] orage-king


Message edited by jay_l_a on 11-03-2009 at 01:43:32 AM
------------------------------ GA-X38-DS4 (BIOS F3)||E8400 C2D (3.6GHz)||2x 1Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 4-4-4-12||320Gb WD Caviar||2x 750Gb WD Caviar||Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W||2x HD4870 512Mb(Crossfire)||HT Omega Striker 7.1
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