Hi,
I'm building a home storage server, that will also be a webserver, stream some media, and perform network backups. The server might also be a hyperv server if i decide to use windows 2008 r2. still deciding what OS i want to run because technically Win7 can do everything i need, except the hyperV stuff. Anyways...I need to know which controller card to use for my RAID needs. Here is what i'm looking to do:
-OS drives in a RAID 1
2x Western digital velociraptors
-Data/storage drives in a RAID 5?
6x 1TB enterprise grade drives; have not decided which ones yet, probably WD RE3's
Will be going with SATA drives as I don't know much about SAS drives i want to stick with what i know and can easily substitute a non-enterprise grade drive if needed in a bind at some point.
KEY NOTE: I will be using a Supermicro CSE-743TQ-865B case
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/743/SC743TQ-865.cfm
I have not decided on a mobo yet either so any suggestions would be great.
I'm building a home storage server, that will also be a webserver, stream some media, and perform network backups. The server might also be a hyperv server if i decide to use windows 2008 r2. still deciding what OS i want to run because technically Win7 can do everything i need, except the hyperV stuff. Anyways...I need to know which controller card to use for my RAID needs. Here is what i'm looking to do:
-OS drives in a RAID 1
2x Western digital velociraptors
-Data/storage drives in a RAID 5?
6x 1TB enterprise grade drives; have not decided which ones yet, probably WD RE3's
Will be going with SATA drives as I don't know much about SAS drives i want to stick with what i know and can easily substitute a non-enterprise grade drive if needed in a bind at some point.
KEY NOTE: I will be using a Supermicro CSE-743TQ-865B case
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/743/SC743TQ-865.cfm
I have not decided on a mobo yet either so any suggestions would be great.