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    Building a RAID 3.0tb NAS

    Well a mobo with 8 ports is like $150, so I would just do that. So you saying even if it is a dedicated box, it still will not be good performance? Also if I got the hardware route and it fails, how screwed am I? Are there ways to recover the data, short of sending it away or finding the same card?
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    Building a RAID 3.0tb NAS

    Well I think those might be out of my budget a bit, as the 8 port raid cards are like $250, but seriously how bad is software raid going to be, given my situation? I don't mind spending the money on the hardware, but I'm worried about the not being able to get your data back if it fails scenario...
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    Building a RAID 3.0tb NAS

    With software raid and a dedicated storage box, how bad performance are we really talking about. Is it going to be unusable? I do like some of the features of software raid. I can easily migrate to large harddisks, and if my hardware fails I'm not screwed. Will I really be able to notice a...
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    Building a RAID 3.0tb NAS

    I want to build a 3.0tb Raid 5 NAS box (for media files, mostly movies) for around $1500 or less (If that is possible) . I'm really unsure what to get hardware wise. It needs to be rack mountable, so I figured I would build something from scratch and run linux. I have a bunch of questions that I...