My media server upgrade

[jtvang125]

Ordered this Text from Newegg and got it in yesterday. I tried running 2 identical 4-port sata expansion cards along with the 6 onboard ports but it wouldn't work so I replaced both cards with the one above. Now I have 22 ports available but my rack server only has 20 bays but that should be more than enough expansion should I need it. At the moment they're all JBOD only since I bought the hard drives a few at a time and in different sizes so I couldn't make it into an actual RAID array. Maybe as I slowly replace all the drives to 1.5tb I'll go over to raid 5. Total disk space at the moment is alittle over 9tb.

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[ZetaEpyon]

What does the rest of your server hardware look like? I'm assuming a Norco 4020 or 4220?

Just curious really, I'd love to get a better setup for my WHS box, but I just can't through a workable amount of money at it right now.

 

[jtvang125]

Basically it's just a file server so I didn't need it to be that beefy. I have a dedicated htpc for running VMC and the decoding. It's a dual core AMD at 2.5ghz, 2gb of ram, the raid card and a cheapo pci video card cause the pcie slot is taken by the raid card. All this in a norco 4020 case with a corsair 650w power supply.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

Cool, I'd been wondering how it would work with a PCI-E RAID card in a motherboard with only one x16 slot. That'd be what I'd have to do with my current WHS box, although I'm using onboard video rather than a PCI card; hopefully it would still work.

 

[manimal]

Let us know when you get your raid up, I would be interested in how it goes for you. I have 6 TB drives right now in my rack but like you they are all jbod as well since I can make media browser organise my various drves into one big list in VMC.