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Probably a silly question but can you do software raid on any motherboard? basically I would save £50 getting the asrock board. also I imagine performance would be the same as both motherboard raid and software raid use the cpu?

Possible spec below: CFI A7879 Mini-ITX NAS/Server Case - 4 Hot Swap Bays Jetway JNC63-330-LF 1.6GHz Dual Core ATOM + nVidia ION Mainboard Samsung Spinpoint F3 (EcoGreen) Kingston 2GB 800MHz/PC2-6400 I would start with 1hd to play around with and then purchase the same again when I have...

Ok here are some of my new ideas: Jetway JNC63P-330-LF (You can get these with or without DC power supply) This supports hardware raid 5 and has 4x sata ports and you can get expansion cards. CFI A7879 Mini-ITX NAS Case I think the plastic door looks cheap but it actually seems like a decent...

informed, thanks. at the moment my plan is to use a dual atom with a ion chips. I haven't checked how well this would cope with encoding. that's not actually essential either as media would be accessed from pcs and tvs and not games consoles, although it is a option. I like the idea of fanless...

Oh right. Well as you can tell I'm still not too clued up on all of this. I assumed that I would have to use software raid and that I could do raid 5 like this on the asrock. Probably should look into spending a little bit more for proper hardware raid 5. Any recommendations on a similiar...

It's out in the UK in about 2 weeks.

Just wondering what you ended up getting? I'm also undecided between the Fractal Design Array Mini ITX R2 and the Chenbro ES34069. 2 points though: The Array is cool but it's inpractical in certain ways and not a great overal design. The Chenbro is cool but expensive and I don't really need...