so a few months ago I bought a 4U rosewill case for my file server/torrent box.
current specs"
Antec P180 Mini
Anthlon II X240
Gigabyte 785G-UD2H
2x2gb A-Data DDR2 800
OCZ Vertex 30GB
2x1.5TB WD Caviar Green's(have 2 more, was running 2xraid0 with a manual backup to the second set in windows server software raid so no raid 10 support 🙁 )
and a DVD drive(that had to be unplugged cuz I didnt feel like using my Silicon Image pic sata card)
it has a xigmatek sd 1283 on it running passive with just the top fan, it was a LP low heat build.
well I started to run a few VM's to play at home, and the AII isnt cutting it, nor the 4gb of ram. I have another 2x2gb set of ddr2-800 and a 1055T on my desk.
the raid 0 GP's are pretty slow. almost painful. can't seem to stream 1080P across the network, but that could be a combo of issues, the CPU seems fine, but maybe the onboard NIC isnt up to the task.
even though bulldozer isnt what most hoped, I am tempted to pick up one of the 880G boards with 6xsata6 ports on it and usb3 and am3+ support. incase I really like running VM's I can toss in a 8core bd later when they get cheaper, and of course ddr3 is cheeeeeeeap.
I just swapped in some nice scythe fans into the chasis while watching the bears pwn the vikings, and now should figure out WTF I am going to do with this box.
should I go up to 880g?
add in 4x4gb of DDR3?
should I get another NIC?
what 2-3TB HDD's are actually fast and arent going to brick on me.
would be nice to get a 3TB and let it backup to the raid-0 1.5TB greens. or I suppose I could raid 5+hs the 4x1.5TB greens, but I am worried about access time.(using 1.2 TB now, so a 2tb drive is doable)
I might snag a few intel gigabit nic's anyways as I might toss a PFSense VM on it for playtime as well, so if I get a new board I should probably go ATX(have room for EATX) so I know I wont run out of PCI/PICE slots
or should I just toss in the sata-1 card for my DVD drive, and the x6 and ddr2 and run that as is?
I plan to virtualize the server 08 install on it and go to hyper-v server at some point if that matters, and I have a 250 gb and a 320gb 2.5" sata 2 hdd laying around if I need to replace the 30gb ssd to do this right.(in case anyone knows of some issues with hyper v etc)
current specs"
Antec P180 Mini
Anthlon II X240
Gigabyte 785G-UD2H
2x2gb A-Data DDR2 800
OCZ Vertex 30GB
2x1.5TB WD Caviar Green's(have 2 more, was running 2xraid0 with a manual backup to the second set in windows server software raid so no raid 10 support 🙁 )
and a DVD drive(that had to be unplugged cuz I didnt feel like using my Silicon Image pic sata card)
it has a xigmatek sd 1283 on it running passive with just the top fan, it was a LP low heat build.
well I started to run a few VM's to play at home, and the AII isnt cutting it, nor the 4gb of ram. I have another 2x2gb set of ddr2-800 and a 1055T on my desk.
the raid 0 GP's are pretty slow. almost painful. can't seem to stream 1080P across the network, but that could be a combo of issues, the CPU seems fine, but maybe the onboard NIC isnt up to the task.
even though bulldozer isnt what most hoped, I am tempted to pick up one of the 880G boards with 6xsata6 ports on it and usb3 and am3+ support. incase I really like running VM's I can toss in a 8core bd later when they get cheaper, and of course ddr3 is cheeeeeeeap.
I just swapped in some nice scythe fans into the chasis while watching the bears pwn the vikings, and now should figure out WTF I am going to do with this box.
should I go up to 880g?
add in 4x4gb of DDR3?
should I get another NIC?
what 2-3TB HDD's are actually fast and arent going to brick on me.
would be nice to get a 3TB and let it backup to the raid-0 1.5TB greens. or I suppose I could raid 5+hs the 4x1.5TB greens, but I am worried about access time.(using 1.2 TB now, so a 2tb drive is doable)
I might snag a few intel gigabit nic's anyways as I might toss a PFSense VM on it for playtime as well, so if I get a new board I should probably go ATX(have room for EATX) so I know I wont run out of PCI/PICE slots
or should I just toss in the sata-1 card for my DVD drive, and the x6 and ddr2 and run that as is?
I plan to virtualize the server 08 install on it and go to hyper-v server at some point if that matters, and I have a 250 gb and a 320gb 2.5" sata 2 hdd laying around if I need to replace the 30gb ssd to do this right.(in case anyone knows of some issues with hyper v etc)
