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November 2, 2009 8:40:58 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



http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx...

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November 2, 2009 9:06:21 PM

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.
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November 2, 2009 9:26:16 PM

This might go better in the Hard Drive forum.
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