Home Media Storage Solution

[mosprovider]

Ive been looking at Drobo 4 bay a bit and like the solution but dont like the $ and the lack of expanding. I found this:
Rosewill RSV-S8 SATA 3G 3.5" HDD 8-Bay RAID 0/1/10/5/JBOD Storage Enclosure System with 120mm cooling fan/ Port Multiplier/ PCIe card included/ Tray design

Recommended upgrade to:
HighPoint RocketRAID 622 PCI-Express 2.0 x1 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card

Rocket Raid Features:
Online capacity expansion (OCE) and Online RAID level migration (ORLM)
RAID Array Roaming
Unplug/Remove RAID array
Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
Firmware update while running the Operating System
Verify RAID Array for Bad Sectors and Parity Check
Task Scheduler
Automatic RAID rebuild
Automatic drive (insert / removal) detection
Hot Spare Disk
Rebuild Priority (Low - Highest)
Spin Down Idle Mode
Hot Swap and Hot plug


All this being said would this be almost identical to the Drobo solution but allow me to have up to 8 hot swap drives? Im not a storage guru so please explain best u can.

Thanks in Advance!

-V

 

[mosprovider]

Anyone?

 

[imaheadcase]

For the money you are getting up to, might as well just build a windows home server. Be cheaper and just as reliable.

That way can use own stuff.

 

[mosprovider]

Can u link me something as an example?

 

[sxr7171]

fwiw those RAID enclosures aren't so great IMHO. I had 2 and got poor performance and drives going missing etc. This may not be your experience, but personally I would never do it again.

As for WHS. GOOGLE IT. Also Google Nexentastor. IMHO, coming from WHS, Nexentastor just beats WHS to a pulp. But WHS is acceptable, but know that it has no future, what is there today is all you'll get. Which is still way better than Win 7 + RAID enclosure. I would not trust one of those. The slightest thing goes wrong and you'll likely lose all your data.